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<p>There is no constitutional right allowing journalists to cover troops in a war zone, a U.S. appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday.</p> <p>The ruling came in a suit brought by publisher Larry Flynt and Hustler magazine over access to U.S. troops in Afghanistan.</p>

<p>FORT Dodge, Iowa -- The Democratic faithful at Iowa Central Community College are entranced, and the candidate, Howard Dean, framed by American flags, is working up to the punch line of his scathing critique of the Bush administration's health-care policy.</p>

Robert E. Lee once said, "it is well that war should be so terrible, otherwise men would grow too fond of it." His statement is true, but as with any momentous historical event (whether that event was for good or for ill), human beings have the capacity to study and learn from that event. So it is with the recent war in Iraq. We are studying and learning from our experience in fighting the regime of Saddam Hussein, and will apply lessons learned in both the political and military sphere to future challenges. As we do, we would also do...

<p>CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod said embedding reporters with troops during the Iraq war was "a huge success."</p> <p>The media and the public got an honest, firsthand, often live, account of the war and soldiers had their stories told, something Axelrod said did not happen in the first Gulf War.</p>

Jewish World Review May 30, 2003 / 28 Iyar, 5763Jack Kelly Our best and brightest are not at Harvard http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | One of the smarter of the many smart decisions made by the Pentagon during Operation Iraqi Freedom was the decision widely to "embed" journalists with U.S. troops. I think it may cause a sea change in the attitude of journalists toward soldiers. I am writing now to express my respect for and appreciation of the soldiers in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the First Armored Division, with whom I was embedded, and the soldiers of the 3rd...

Her Iraqi guards had long fled, she was being well cared for - and doctors had already tried to free her. John Kampfner discovers the real story behind a modern American war myth Jessica Lynch became an icon of the war. An all-American heroine, the story of her capture by the Iraqis and her rescue by US special forces became one of the great patriotic moments of the conflict. It couldn't have happened at a more crucial moment, when the talk was of coalition forces bogged down, of a victory too slow in coming. Her rescue will go down as...

BASRA, Iraq, April 8 (UPI) -- Something fundamental has happened to the British and U.S. media during this war. Those who have spent time on the front lines with the coalition troops, whether embedded with individual units or traveling independently through liberated Iraq, have learned to love the military. Time after time, they saved our necks. They put our soft-skinned vehicles behind their armor when the shells came in. They told us when to duck and when it was safe to move. They shared their food and water with us, and were embarrassingly grateful when we let them use our...

I used to watch a show called "Ethics in America" some time ago where they had 10-15 "experts" in their field in a horseshoe-shaped conference table and discussed issues of the day. One episode which has practical sigificance today was called,"Under Orders, Under Fire," and author/editor James Fallows discussed it in his infamous "Atlantic Monthly" article and heralded book, "Breaking the News". The moderator was Charles Ogletree, a professor at Harvard Law School, who moved from panelist to panelist asking increasingly difficult questions in the law school's famous Socratic style. In the current conflict with Iraq, given the enormous number...