From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 11:41:40 MDT
--- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> The embedded reporters were totally controlled by the military.
> They could not report anything without it being censored and approved
> by the military. There were many examples of reports from the
> embedded media not matching other reporters, even within the same
> network.
I would bet that the facts would show that the embedded reporter filed
the more accurate report in the vast majority of cases, while the
non-embedded reporter was filing based on second and third hand
information, generally Iraqi propaganda or that of sympathizers.
Embedded reporters filed live video from the scene while non-embedded
reporters filed from a hotel balcony in Amman or Kuwait or Bagdad. The
nonembeds were of two sorts. They were either in bed with the enemy:
from non-coalition countries and cooperated with the Baath regime, or
they were of the old school cocktail set that thought covering a war
meant spending more time around a hotel pool than anywhere else. Only
the embeds, in my opinion, deserve the title Journalist.
The classic example was Greg Kelly of FOX reporting from the front
steps of Saddam's new palace in Bagdad at the same time that Bagdad
Bob, aka Comical Ali, was claiming a few blocks away to international
reporters that there were no Americans in Bagdad. Nobody today will now
claim to have been present at Bagdad Bob's news conferences and taking
his pronouncements as fact, though many did so at the time.
Please, Harvey, document any actual instance where an embedded reporter
was ordered to report facts not in evidence.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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