Part of the point behind the military’s embedded-reporting program was to “bypass the filter.” [tag]Journalists[\/tag] could work literally alongside the troops, in the field, and report back on events in [tag]Iraq[\/tag] without “editorial [tag]bias[\/tag]” or “[tag]media[\/tag] [tag]slants[\/tag]” getting in the way. Or so administration officials believed three years ago.<\/p>\n
Now, [tag]Rod Nordland[\/tag], Newsweek former Baghdad bureau chief sees a very different approach<\/a> in place. (via TP<\/a>)<\/p>\n “The military has started censoring many [[tag]embedded[\/tag] reporting] arrangements. Before a journalist is allowed to go on an embed now, [the military] check[s] the work you have done previously. They want to know your slant on a story — they use the word slant — what you intend to write, and what you have written from embed trips before. If they don’t like what you have done before, they refuse to take you. There are cases where individual reporters have been blacklisted because the military wasn’t happy with the work they had done on embed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As if these journalists didn’t have enough to worry about being in the middle of a war — a war from which far too many reporters won’t come home — they now apparently have to deal with administration [tag]censorship[\/tag] and [tag]blacklisting[\/tag].<\/p>\n And the [tag]Bush[\/tag] [tag]administration[\/tag]’s war on the [tag]freedom of the press[\/tag] continues…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part of the point behind the military’s embedded-reporting program was to “bypass the filter.” [tag]Journalists[\/tag] could work literally alongside the troops, in the field, and report back on events in [tag]Iraq[\/tag] without “editorial [tag]bias[\/tag]” or “[tag]media[\/tag] [tag]slants[\/tag]” getting in the way. Or so administration officials believed three years ago. Now, [tag]Rod Nordland[\/tag], Newsweek former Baghdad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}