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Article Source: News - StripesAsserting that Stars and Stripes "refused to highlight" good news in Iraq that the U.S. military wanted to emphasize, Army officials have barred a Stripes reporter from embedding with a unit of the 1st Cavalry Division that is attempting to secure the violent city of Mosul.
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Media watchdogs blast Army's embed ban
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=63443
“If they put these kind of conditions on it, then I’d say the whole program will collapse,” said Kelly McBride, Ethics Group Leader at the Poynter Institute, a media training facility and think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla. “It’s not meant to be a public relations program for the military.”
#1 - Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:02 AM EDTThe 1st Cav. hasn't got time for this kind of BS. Maybe Terry Leonard can get Druzin a gig (embed) with an al-Qaida group. I'm sure they'll treat him with more respect. And Anna Nicole married for love.
#2 - Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:02 AM EDTOn the other end I do not consider "Embedded Journalism" to be a healthy journalistic approach - unless it is done with a specific perspective in mind, a de facto biased one since the journalist will be shown selected facets of what is going on.
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