"Birth of the Embed"

An interesting and informative article by FOX's Kim Hume at The Weekly Standard today:

.... Barely two weeks before the conflict began the journalists from 200 news organizations were on their way to the gulf. So far, it is working for both sides.

Not remarkably, this cooperation is based on a most elementary concept of nature -- self-interest. And Secretary Rumsfeld hit on it: Journalists want to be in on the action. The military wants the real story told and needs objective professionals to tell it.

Throw in a little blind trust, commitment, and self-preservation and we've got David Bloom of NBC riding around in a Humvee, effectively shouting to the world "On to Baghdad!" Poor Peter Arnett. He's so 1991 -- trying to appease the censors and stay alive in Baghdad. It seems like he's fighting the last war. But then again, it seems like Saddam Hussein is, too.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 03/28/03 10:23:41 AM
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