[KantianBurke]

what's an embedded reporter?

[steveegg]

what's an embedded reporter?

That is a reporter that is travelling with the troops and doing constant reports with very few restrictions. I don't know who thought of this, but in the balance, it seems to be a good idea.

[dawn53]

The reporters that are actually traveling with our military and reporting from their positions.

[katana]

It's a reporter with a satchel sized uplink and webcam. Most of them seem to have bonded with their assigned units. The problems may come if and when one of those units gets into deep s**t. For a movie analogy, recall the correspondent being bitten in half by a "bug" in the film Starship Troopers.

[Minutes]

embedded reporter ..... Strange choice of words, eh? The first time I heard it, CNN's Aaron Brown was trying to say it without laughing. Soon they all got used to it and can say it easily.

I don't know who decided to 'embed' them, but I am afraid for CNN's Nic Robertson - he's not exactly embedded ... He's reporting from a hotel in Bagdad... man, I don't envy him!

I do wish them ALL good luck and godspeed !

Laurea - in Canada

[coloradan]

what's an embedded reporter?

Reporters are outfitted with a special suit and then accelerated to high speed into a structure or the ground. From that location, "embedded" within it, they are able to report on the war's progress. Apparently, the impact knocks sense into them and causes them to soften, if not abandon, their usual radical left, anti-military, anti-US stance so common among non-embedded reporters.