Word: embeddedness
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Embedded reporting has introduced an unparalleled level of detail into the way journalists cover war.
Barnes, along with his fellow embedded journalists, was prepared for the experience during a week-long media boot camp run by the military that covered topics from personal hygiene to how to march in formation with the soldiers. Barnes said he was at first a little unsure of how helpful...
“Embedded reporting let us convey to our readers what was happening on a closer level,” said Barnes. “I heard the general confer with the colonel, the colonel with the lieutenant colonel, the lieutenant colonel with the major, all the way down...
But Barnes also said that embedded reporting raises a number of worries, prime among them the need to balance the relatively narrow perspective of the individual reporter on the front line with the big picture.
Barnes said he also found it troublesome to gauge Iraqi reactions to the war. “When I was embedded, it was difficult to know what the perspective of the Iraqis was,” he said.