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Carlson describes a much more painstaking process as he and Katovsky assembled Embedded last spring: the interviews in Iraq plus several more done by phone from the United States, a painstaking editing process, writing an introduction to each chapter, arranging the interviews into a coherent whole.
The two were fast friends as well as colleagues. It took 10 years, though, before Katovsky’s news-junkie habits led him and Carlson to the idea that would become Embedded.
For Carlson’s part, he is careful to point out that he gave equal time to embeds from all parts of the political spectrum. Views from Voice of America and Al Jazeera, the words of a peace activist and the Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary of...
In Embedded and in person, Carlson often cites a back-of-the-envelope statistical calculation that, as a group, journalists were about ten times as likely as coalition soldiers to die during the three-week ground phase of the Iraqi war. The book concludes with a list of 16 journalists...
Throughout the book, journalist after journalist reveals objectivity to be an extraordinarily slippery concept when dealing with the twinned subjects of Saddam Hussein’s regime and President Bush’s invasion. Times reporter Burns drew prominent media attention this fall when Embedded included his excoriation of those...