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Embedded: The Media At War in Iraq
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by Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson
Sales Rank: 700488
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 450 pages
Published by: The Lyons Press; First edition September 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1592282652
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1592282654
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Product Review
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 sixty 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 sixty 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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Reader Reviews
This book contains dozens of 3 or 4 page vignettes from reporters (and some others, like an anti-war activist), who covered the Iraq war. Some of the reporters were embedded and others were independent. The main theme of most of the stories is how bad the conditions were and why the reporters were exhausted and just had to go home after their gruelling five weeks of covering the war. If anything, this book will make you marvel at the courage and fortitude of the military personnel, who endure these conditions, and worse, for months on end. Some of the stories reflect admiration for the troops and an increased appreciation of the US military and the difficult conditions under which they work and fight. Some reflect a lack of preparedness and understanding by the reporters of what they were getting into; they are apparently suprised that war actually involves killing people, or being killed by them - and the fact that, unfortunately, sometimes innocent civilians die in the process. This book is most useful in documenting the experience of the reporters during the war, but it sheds relativley little light on the war itself, nor does it coherently address the complex relationship of the reporter and the war environment. Most of the collected stories are "all about me."
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