Re: "Worse and Worse"

A reader writes:

I have been thinking lately about the two very different journalistic trends that were so starkly displayed on your blog today. I was wondering to myself while walking the dog last night just how long lasting an effect the intense experiences and friendships with ordinary Americans fighting Saddam's thugs will last once they are again immersed in the culture that produced the LA Times story. I'm sure that there is already a growing divide between the embedees and their colleagues who must think that former are all being brainwashed. It will be interesting to see how this divide plays out in the future and if it has any real and lasting effect on the dominant press culture that has persisted since the Vietnam era. In the mean time, I wonder how the editors of some of these media outlets are dealing with the stories from two very different wars that appear to be raging simultaneously in Iraq?

God bless and keep up the good work!

My own hunch is that most of the "embeddeds" will learn from their experience: most of them for the better, I hope, but some of them for the worse. Whether that's something that will pass on to their colleagues, and heirs, is quite another question. But I'm sure that some of them will learn nothing at all that will really last with them — what profession is without its blockheads? Hopefully, though, they will be in the extreme minority.

P.S. I am using "profession" very loosely. ;)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 03/28/03 12:37:56 PM
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