certainly I thought it was embedded not imbedded. The reporters are embedded as opposed to at-large in that they are assigned to and managed by the military groups that they are protected by. The image presented to the audience is that there is a reporter living in a normal operating military group watching what is happening and thereby getting a more immediate if not accurate picture of what is going on.
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Truth is the military has avoided having to worry about reporters wandering about the countryside capturing pictures that are unpopular with the military or getting shot because they weren't protected. What we really have is a few groups of military personal who encircle the reporter and protect them while the intelligence officer of the group tells the report what they are allowed to capture and transmit back home. This manipulation of the "free-press" is interesting only to the extent that it satisfies the short attention spans of the watchers of american telivision, and the astonishing dichotomy between the warriness of the iraqi minders of the reporters like Peter Arnet and the total faith we have in the intentions of the minders of the embedded reporters.
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