Sydney Schanberg on embeds
on 27 Feb 2008
Quick follow up from
an earlier post about Greg Mitchell's new book about the run up to Iraq and the role of the media, a raft of reporters wade in to the whole "to-embed or not-to-embed debate. Sydney Schanberg has his say,
"Em-bed-ded," said Sydney H. Schanberg [the New York Times journalist known for his reporting in Cambodia in the 70's and from the film the Killing Fields], savoring the word's many ambiguities and connotations. "Embedded means, 'You're there.' It also means, 'You're stuck.'" ... "You'd rather not be hampered at all," he admitted, "but as a journalist, and a realist, I don't expect to walk into the military's shop and break all the china. You're a fool if you believe that. But the military, on the other hand, must recognize you are a professional." link
