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Friday, March 28, 2003


Joe Bob is right on the money, as usual, but this time about embedded reporting going on in Gulf War II.
In other words, it ranks as news somewhere on the level of a high school newspaper censored by a faculty adviser whose name is Miriam.
Ouch. Gotta love that one, and how true.
"We'll turn every reporter into a feature writer," he decided one day, in an inspired vision. We'll treat them, in other words, as morale support personnel. Sort of like the USO. I wonder if any of them can tap-dance.
Probably not, and that's the sad part. All they can do is tell us things we already know.

And of course, Lileks sums it up perfectly:
TV is useful for pictures - I get the feeling sometimes this should be called Operation Stock Footage - and it’s useful for seeing retired military people draw lines on maps. . . .

The details never seem to filter into the TV reports - for all the embeddedness of the reportorial faction, I’ve yet to see a big smashing battle. The more you watch the more you realize how little you’re seeing.



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