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Editorial Reviews
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In comparison to the Gulf War of 1991, in which the Pentagon controlled the news as tightly as possible, the war of 2003 was a wide-open affair for reporters. This was partly done to counteract propaganda coming from the Iraqi government; it was also an attempt to control and influence the news by keeping journalists under close watch. To this end, the Pentagon developed a "slick new public relations concept known as embedding." (xiii galley) Embedded journalists lived, ate, and traveled with the troops. They also came under enemy fire with the troops. In fact, as a group, the roughly 2,700 journalists in Iraq were more likely to be killed in combat than the quarter million American and British soldiers. Traveling with troops was generally safer and afforded better access, but what about journalistic ethics? That is question at the core of this fascinating book and one proves to have many different answers. Embedded is a collection of interviews conducted between April and June 2003 of 60 journalists, public affairs officers, and freelance photographers from a wide range of print, television, and radio sources. Their stories convey information, impressions, and anecdotes that could not be included in their official reports and are therefore quite revealing. They confront not only the risks, and allure, of reporting from a combat zone, but of getting too close to the story to remain objective (if true objectivity is even possible). This personal and often moving collection offers great insight into the most covered war in history. --Shawn Carkonen
From Booklist
This collection of the stories behind the stories of the Iraqi war offers a rich and revealing look at emotions and images rarely seen in news reporting. Katovsky and Carlson interviewed 60 leading journalists who lived, ate, and traveled with U.S. troops. They begin with a brief history of the relationship between the military and the media and a discussion of the practice of embedding reporters, detailing the pros (greater access and immediacy of reporting) and cons (the greater risks to reporters' lives and their ability to be objective). The interviews include CBS News' Jim Axelrod, who is still mourning the loss of his colleague David Bloom, and Peter Baker of the Washington Post, who recalls the strain of covering a battle while worrying about his wife, Susan Glasser, who was also reporting from Iraq. Recollections range from the raw fear provoked by close calls in the battlefield to the boredom of daily briefings at the CENTCOM media center in Doha, Qatar. Vanessa Bush
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In comparison to the Gulf War of 1991, in which the Pentagon controlled the news as tightly as possible, the war of 2003 was a wide-open affair for reporters. This was partly done to counteract propaganda coming from the Iraqi government; it was also an attempt to control and influence the news by keeping journalists under close watch. To this end, the Pentagon developed a "slick new public relations concept known as embedding." (xiii galley) Embedded journalists lived, ate, and traveled with the troops. They also came under enemy fire with the troops. In fact, as a group, the roughly 2,700 journalists in Iraq were more likely to be killed in combat than the quarter million American and British soldiers. Traveling with troops was generally safer and afforded better access, but what about journalistic ethics? That is question at the core of this fascinating book and one proves to have many different answers. Embedded is a collection of interviews conducted between April and June 2003 of 60 journalists, public affairs officers, and freelance photographers from a wide range of print, television, and radio sources. Their stories convey information, impressions, and anecdotes that could not be included in their official reports and are therefore quite revealing. They confront not only the risks, and allure, of reporting from a combat zone, but of getting too close to the story to remain objective (if true objectivity is even possible). This personal and often moving collection offers great insight into the most covered war in history. --Shawn Carkonen
From Booklist
This collection of the stories behind the stories of the Iraqi war offers a rich and revealing look at emotions and images rarely seen in news reporting. Katovsky and Carlson interviewed 60 leading journalists who lived, ate, and traveled with U.S. troops. They begin with a brief history of the relationship between the military and the media and a discussion of the practice of embedding reporters, detailing the pros (greater access and immediacy of reporting) and cons (the greater risks to reporters' lives and their ability to be objective). The interviews include CBS News' Jim Axelrod, who is still mourning the loss of his colleague David Bloom, and Peter Baker of the Washington Post, who recalls the strain of covering a battle while worrying about his wife, Susan Glasser, who was also reporting from Iraq. Recollections range from the raw fear provoked by close calls in the battlefield to the boredom of daily briefings at the CENTCOM media center in Doha, Qatar. Vanessa Bush
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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