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Michael Yon has been invited to embed again by both Great Britain and the US.Michael Yon isn’t a correspondent who sparks a neutral reaction in the reader. You either love him or you don’t. There’s not much of an in-between. In April Yon’s embed in Afghanistan ended abruptly. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, was in charge and some of Yon’s fans blamed the general. The official reason given was “overcrowding by journalists.” In a dispatch announcing the change, Yon wrote, “Haven’t seen a journalist in weeks.” In the preceding month, Yon had pulled no punches in...

And those reporters paid the price for their ignorance.What unbelievable knuckleheads the left and the MSM are. Making the rounds over the last few days is this video in which Wikileaks says there were unarmed civilian reporters who were killed for no other reason than they had cameras. Complete and utter bulls&%t. [VIDEO AT SITE] This was 2007 people. There was still a war going on. And it sucks that the reporters deemed it necessary to embed themselves with the enemy, but they knew full well what the results might be. Rusty at The Jawa Report has screen shots of...

And finally, while browsing the web this evening, I ran across Brad Warthen's blog at The State. Brad discovered some interesting pixellation embedded in the Obama- hope poster. Click on the photo to enlarge. [cue spooky music...]

CAMP STRIKER, Iraq, July 27, 2007 – Embedded provincial reconstruction teams, known as EPRTs, are helping teach Iraqi businessmen and local officials how to better function as part of a democratic government. These teams are embedded in U.S. brigades. They include about 10 people who work closely with a brigade's civil affairs team, engineers, and other staff sections to help improve Iraqi governance and economic development. "We have civilians, active-reserve and active-duty servicemembers with us," said Lou Lantner, a U.S. State Department public affairs officer who heads up the EPRT working with 10th Mountain Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team. "Together,...

BERKELEY — Berkeley blogger Jane Stillwater hasn't even been back from her war correspondent gig in Baghdad for a month, and already she's planning her next trip to Iraq. And this time she is determined to get embedded and see some actual combat in Baghdad's Red Zone, she said Thursday. "When I was there I saw everything inside the Green Zone, but I never got to see combat. You can't see Iraq like that," said Stillwater, 64, of Berkeley. "It's like going to the zoo and not seeing the elephants and lions." A longtime blogger and full-time, self-described peacemaker, Stillwater,...

BAGHDAD, Dec. 22, 2006 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today learned from a U.S. Army officer working closely with Iraqi forces that Iraqi units are gaining confidence in their abilities and are doing more to empower noncommissioned officers. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Bob Morschauser, commander of Task Force 2-15 in the Mahmudiyah area, along with a half dozen soldiers in his unit, ate breakfast with Gates and U.S. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, here this morning. In a news conference a few hours later, Gates told reporters he was impressed and encouraged by what...

Edward I goes to Ramadi Despite all the bad news from Iraq, some U.S. tactics are working. Michael Fumento reports on one of them: the Combat Operation Post Michael Fumento, Embedded with 1st Brigade Combat Team National Post Tuesday, November 28, 2006 RAMADI, Iraq - The capital of Iraq's Al Anbar province, Ramadi, remains for U.S. troops the most violent city in Iraq. Yet we seem finally to be gaining ground there against the insurgents and al-Qaeda terrorists. And COPs -- Combat Operation Posts -- may be one of the most important reasons. Historically, successful counterinsurgency efforts have involved...

A minister embedded with some of the Marines who are alleged to have killed up to two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, after one of their own died in a roadside explosion says he heard about the dead civilians but saw no distress among Iraqis or Marines in Haditha several weeks after the killings. "I knew he had been killed and there had been a response. I got the impression insurgents were killed and also some civilians got killed," the Rev. Christopher Price of suburban Atlanta recalled Friday of his conversations with Marines in Haditha in January. "As it was...

U.S. Army Maj. Donnie Kelly, embedded training team chief for the Afghan National Army's 2nd Kandak, 1st Brigade, 203rd Corps, trains soldiers on procedures for entering and searching buildings. Office of Security Cooperation-Afghanistan photo by U.S. Air Force Capt. Dave Huxsoll More Photos U.S. Army Embedded Trainers Mentor Afghan Soldiers Afghan soldiers of the 2nd Kandak regularly join members of the U.S. Army’s 1st Brigade, as well as military police stationed at Orgun-E, on missions in the area. By U.S. Air Force Capt. Dave HuxsollOffice of Security Cooperation-Afghanistan FORWARD OPERATING BASE ORGUN-E, Afghanistan, Feb. 10, 2006 — The professional...

See for example this thread first. ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman had it rough They thought to embed and nearly were dead now they've learned IED's make it tough!

Considering another side Think about everything you’ve heard about the conditions in Iraq, the role of U.S. forces, the multi-layered complexities of the war. Then think again. I’m a journalist. I read the news everyday, from several sources. I have the luxury of reading stuff newspapers don’t always have room to print. I read every tidbit I could on Iraq and the war before coming. Everything I thought I knew was wrong. Maybe not wrong, but certainly different than the picture in my head. I liken it to this; It was real struggle for me to choose to see the...

CAMP SLAYER, Iraq - As the world waited to see whether the Iraqis accept a new constitution or if the necessary step toward democracy in this embattled nation will have to start all again, three expatriates are hopeful the ayes for a new beginning in Iraq will win. For security reasons, their real names are not used in this article. "The Iraqi people have been locked up for 35 years under Saddam (Hussein)," said Ali. Concerns about the sensitivity of their work translating Iraqi documents for the U.S. government and that they still have family in Iraq led them to...

August 24, 2005 U.S. Representative John Linder 1026 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Phone: 770-232-3005 Fax: 770-232-2909 Copy: Neal Boortz, WSB Radio, Dr. Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University Dear Representative Linder: I wrote to you two days ago regarding what I consider to be serious misrepresentations of the Fair Tax plan contained in your book, “The FairTax Book”. On page 2, you state “Let’s agree up front that this book is about honesty” and I intend to hold you at your word. Since that time, I have been in contact with Dr. Jorgenson in an attempt to clarify his...

How close should journalists get to thugs and murderers to get the facts? It's a question that has troubled editors for a long time, but a question that isn't asked nearly often enough. The question takes on new significance in an age of terrorism. We revisit it now that Columbia University has awarded a Pulitzer Prize to an anonymous Associated Press photographer whose connections to terrorists yielded an extraordinary scoop. By the rules, the AP did nothing wrong. But in a heated exchange with critics who saw the photographs as complicity with terror, an AP spokesman explained that the photographer...

A successful businessman, who is also a successful conservative talk show personality in Houston, is going to Iraq to see the troops and give the "other" viewpoint of what's happening, tomorrow, 1-18-2005.

Are the media on our side? If so, why are they doing the bidding of a bunch of murderous thugs who enjoy lopping off innocent peoples’ heads? We are once again getting the answer loud and clear: To the media, U.S. troops in Iraq are always wrong, and the enemies is usually shown, not as a terrorists, but a victims of unwarranted U.S. aggression. Consider the firestorm that erupted when a young U.S. Marine, wounded the day before, was videotaped in the act of shooting a so-called insurgent who may or may not have been armed or booby trapped, waiting...

Jackie Spinner at the Washington Post hosted a live-chat Q&A on the war in Iraq and journalists' efforts to cover the action. Spinner joined the chatroom live from an Army outpost near Fallujah, and the very first question asked about the benefits of embedding reporters within military units as opposed to freelancing in a war zone: Q - Is it preferrable to report from an embedded military unit, or do you prefer to roam about the city without their protection? I presume the quality of reporting is better if you aren't chained to a branch of the military, but it...

Dear Mr. Robbins, I’ve never written to a movie star before—least of all to one who cares as much as you. That I have contempt in my heart for you disturbs me more than you will at first appreciate. Make no mistake about my feelings. Your feeble political satire about the war in Iraq, Embedded, which you’ve also directed at the Public, has been dressed up as a revolutionary statement. Enough is enough. I usually strain to be polite, but there will be no apologies from me this time. I’m no political animal, but I know smugness when I see...

<p>A Florida company has announced plans to develop a service that would allow consumers to pay for merchandise using microchips implanted under their skin.</p> <p>Applied Digital Solutions CEO Scott Silverman said he believes the company's VeriChip -- a subdermal microchip that uses radio frequency signals to broadcast an identification number to a scanner -- could someday replace credit cards. Under Silverman's plan, rather than swiping a bank card to make purchases, micro-chipped customers would scan themselves using special readers.</p>

Opinion: ColumnsLast modified Friday, January 2, 2004 9:51 PM PST Editor's Corner: Worry takes a respiteBy: MARK WALKER - Staff Writer My sister has a new 24/7 companion these days. It's called worry, and it's a companion a lot of Camp Pendleton spouses will again soon have. For my sister, worry took a welcome respite on Christmas thanks to a reporter from the Tacoma News Tribune in Washington state. My nephew, Staff Sgt. Sean Dack, is in Iraq with the Stryker Brigade, the U.S. Army's new fast-attack fighting force, also known as the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. The brigade...

NEW YORK -- Tim Robbins' new play Embedded, centering on U.S. soldiers and reporters in Iraq -- has opened in Hollywood and runs through Dec. 21 at the Actor's Gang Theater. Robbins interviewed embedded journalist Evan Wright of Rolling Stone as part of his research, along with Anthony Swofford, the Gulf War I veteran who wrote the popular book Jarhead. Cofounder of the Actors Gang in 1981, Robbins is both writer and director of "Embedded," which depicts soldiers getting ready to leave for war in an oil-rich land called "Gomorrah" to fight against the "butcher of Babylon."

<p>CARDIFF, England, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A study conducted for the BBC of reporters embedded in military units during the Iraq war has produced a mixed verdict.</p> <p>Cardiff University analysts, in a study announced Thursday, concluded such reporters were generally able to preserve their objectivity, but the practice raised serious concerns in several areas.</p>

SEPTEMBER 18, 2003 Praise and Pans for John Burns Book Excerpt Generates Tons of Mail NEW YORK -- This past Monday, E&P Online published an oral history with John Burns, the New York Times correspondent, from the new book Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq (The Lyons Press). Among other things, Burns charged that some reporters in Baghdad curried favor with Saddam Hussein's regime by neglecting to fully expose its many brutalities. Our excerpt inspired wide coverage of Burns' charges in other media this week, and more e-mails to E&P Online than any article in memory, with many hailing...

John Burns, the great New York Times reporter, offers us a brutally blunt assessment of how badly Western correspondents covered Saddam Hussein's regime. His report, excerpted by The Wall Street Journal and Editor & Publisher, is spreading rapidly on the Internet and is bound to have an impact on the public's already low respect for most journalists. The compulsively candid Burns, until recently the New York Times bureau chief in Iraq, wrote his comments for the new book "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq" (The Lyons Press), a collection of first-person accounts by journalists in Iraq. Burns, who has...

<p>The following is an excerpt from John F. Burns's contribution to the book "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq," published this week by The Lyons Press. Mr. Burns is a correspondent for the New York Times.</p> <p>From the point of view of my being in Baghdad, I had more authority than anybody else. Without contest, I was the most closely watched and unfavored of all the correspondents there because of what I wrote about terror whilst Saddam Hussein was still in power.</p>

Veteran New York Times correspondent John Burns claims foreign journalists covering the Iraq war while Saddam Hussein was still in power did not present a true picture of the regime's tyranny because they believed they needed to curry favor with officials in order to gain and maintain access. JohnBurns's comments were excerpted by Editor and Publisher magazine from the newly published Lyons Press book, "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, an Oral History," by Bill Katovksy and Timothy Carlson. The Times reporter said he put Iraq in a category of totalitarian states all its own, with the possible exception...

War called 'justified' New York Times foreign correspondent John Burns is on record in interviews and in his own stories about dangers in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. In a new oral history, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner went on to say: "This war could have been justified any time on the basis of human rights. Alone. This was a grotesque charnel house." Interviewed May 1 in Baghdad for "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq," Burns added, "There were probably fewer people [who] died in the six weeks since this war began than would have died if Saddam Hussein's killing...

BERLIN (AFP) - US troops which fired on Baghdad's main hotel occupied by journalists, killing two, had called in fighter planes to bomb the building, a German journalist who witnessed the event said on Tuesday. "The tank commander called for support from the air. But he did not know the building was a hotel," said Ulrich Tilgner, on ZDF public television. It was a US journalist, "embedded" with the troops, who alerted them to the fact the Palestine Hotel was used as a base by the international media in Baghdad and the strike was called off, Tilgner said. The...

BAGHDAD, Apr 18, 2003 (Knight Ridder Newspapers - Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service via COMTEX) -- At times, I felt like Bonnie with 1,000 Clydes. Traipsing some 500 miles all over Iraq with the First Battalion, Fourth Marines, and stepping, deliberately or accidentally, into one gunfight after another, I might well have been. The Marine unit I was with was on or very near the front lines for three weeks during the U.S.-led charge to Baghdad. It set off from a tent city in northern Kuwait in mid-March and settled at a cigarette factory in east Baghdad on Wednesday. The road...

Embedded Journal: 'I Went Over to the Dark Side' (Editor's note: This column catches us up on Jules Crittenden's last several days, after he was re-united with his laptop computer and again able to file these reports for Poynter.org.) Tomorrow, I may get to bathe for the first time in over three weeks, not counting several wipe downs. It would be nice, but doesn’t matter much at this point. You’d be surprised how you get used to it, and when I was finally reunited with my gear yesterday, I was able to throw away my week-old underwear and socks, and...

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid couldn't believe the tenacity of the lawmen pursuing them. No matter what they did, Johnny Law was right behind them. They just kept coming. They had never seen such persistence. If you haven't seen the movie, shame on you - now go rent it. It seems our press are asking the same questions. They just can't seem to comprehend the character of the men and women of our armed forces. Last week, Martin Savidge of CNN, embedded with the 1st Marine battalion, was talking with 4 young Marines near his foxhole this morning live...

Hello everyone, Well, here is the latest from your local imbedded media (me). I moved up forward to do casevac and get my helicopter aircraft commander check rides. We were first just north of the Euphrates river. This whole thing is nuts, when you are part of an invading military you do what you want, within reason. We parked our helicopters on a rest stop off ramp on of one of the main highways into Baghdad. By Thursday we were flying into Baghdad to do casevac operations. Most of the people we are pulling out are either enemy or civilians....

The complaints of pro-American bias against the embedded reporters in Iraq, that came not two days into the war, were stunning in their predictability. After all, these are the same people who would be complaining about a lack of access, if the reporters weren’t allowed to accompany the troops. Once again, it’s the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t crowd up to their old tricks again. What’s really bothering these pessimists is that the embedded reporters aren’t telling them the story they want to hear. That is, they’re not confirming all their worst prejudices and suspicions about the U.S. military. The critics want another...

By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 4, 2003; 10:48 AM Michael Kelly, the Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large and Washington Post columnist who abandoned the safety of editorial offices to cover the war in Iraq, has been killed in a Humvee accident while traveling with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Peter Arnett is back on the air from Baghdad. Latest news: · World Prepares to Feed Iraqis Hit by War Reuters - 3 minutes ago · Schroeder Softens Anti-War Tone, Sees U.S. Victory Reuters - 4 minutes ago · U.S. Mortuary Receives More Iraq War Dead AP - 5 minutes ago Special Coverage Within days of being fired by the U.S. network NBC, Arnett found an unlikely new audience Thursday: the Dutch-speaking — and hopefully English-comprehending — citizens of northern Belgium. "Thanks Peter Arnett, we are proud to have you on our team," said VTM news anchor...

<p>Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., poked fun at military analysts and embedded reporters in a Wednesday night speech. At a fundraising event for the Juvenile Diabetes Relief Fund, McCain said he liked the military analysts who are appearing on network and cable news shows talking about the war on Iraq, but wondered where they all come from.</p>

April 3, 2003 Release Number: 03-04-43 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE USE OF THURAYA PHONES DISCONTINUED CAMP DOHA, Kuwait -- Recent intelligence reporting indicates Thuraya satellite phone services may have been compromised. For this reason, Thuraya phones use has been discontinued on the battlefields in Iraq. The phones now represent a security risk to units and personnel on the battlefield. This impacts the more than 500 Thuraya phones that were being used by U.S. Forces in the CENTCOM area as well as the media traveling with units in Iraq. Military units have been directed to assist journalists, to the greatest extent possible,...

 101900Z FEB 03 FM SECDEF WASHINGTON DC//OASD-PA// TO SECDEF WASHINGTON DC//CHAIRS// AIG 8777 HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE//PA// USCINCEUR VAIHINGEN GE//ECPA// JOINT STAFF WASHINGTON DC//PA// SECSTATE WASHINGTON DC//PA// CJCS WASHINGTON DC//PA// NSC WASHINGTON DC WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM INFO SECDEF WASHINGTON DC//OASD-PA/DPO//  UNCLAS  SUBJECT: PUBLIC AFFAIRS GUIDANCE (PAG) ON EMBEDDING MEDIA DURING POSSIBLE FUTURE OPERATIONS/DEPLOYMENTS IN THE U.S. CENTRAL COMMANDS (CENTCOM) AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (AOR).  REFERENCES: REF. A. SECDEF MSG, DTG 172200Z JAN 03, SUBJ: PUBLIC AFFAIRS GUIDANCE (PAG) FOR MOVEMENT OF FORCES INTO THE CENTCOM AOR FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE OPERATIONS.  1. PURPOSE. THIS MESSAGE PROVIDES GUIDANCE, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ON EMBEDDING NEWS MEDIA DURING POSSIBLE FUTURE OPERATIONS/DEPLOYMENTS IN THE CENTCOM AOR. IT CAN BE ADAPTED FOR USE IN OTHER UNIFIED COMMAND AORS...

During military operations, there is a constant need to exchange information regarding friendly and enemy activities and capabilities on an urgent basis. During my day, before automatic encryption of radio messages, we were taught the "30-minute rule." It was pretty simple -- first of all, assume the enemy can hear your message. If you decide that he couldn't react to what you are talking about within 30 minutes, send your transmission in clear and get on with your task; otherwise, take the time to encode your message. Modern day soldiers rarely have to worry about giving away critical information to...

William Safire writes a New York Times column entitled "On Language" in which he explores the evolving meaning of commonly used words. His March 9 installment discusses our favorite word: embedded. Unfortunately, to read it you register on the site and pay a fee. Mr. Safire tackles a usage rooted in the current Iraq conflict. He quotes Newsweek's Verne Gay: "[embedded is] military jargon for a reporter who is to be stationed with a 'unit', which is more jargon for a division, or corps, or perhaps an aircraft carrier group. Hundreds of reporters will be embedded in units during a...

* * * * WASHINGTON UPDATE * * * * RUMSFELD MEMO TO NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: HOW TO WIN THE SPIN WAR By Joel C. Rosenberg, national correspondent, WORLD magazine (www.worldmag.com) ** ADVANCE FROM NEXT WEEK'S WORLD MAGAZINE ** (WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2003) -- Fox News Channel star Ollie North is drawing huge ratings reporting from the front lines with his fellow Marines. David Bloom of NBC is suddenly a household name. CNN's Walter Rodgers breathlessly tells the Washington Post via satellite phone from deep inside Iraq, "I don't believe I've ever had such access over 36 years...

Mar 27, 2003 (Knight Ridder Newspapers - Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service via COMTEX) -- Anyone who has watched a measurable amount of television war coverage over the past few days has been privy to the vicarious thrills of "embedded" reporting. We've rumbled through the desert atop armored vehicles. We've been plopped on the flight decks of aircraft carriers as U.S. jet fighters return from their bombing raids. We've even found ourselves in the middle of fiery gunbattles that look like something out of a Bruce Willis action film. Not surprisingly, this kind of you-are-there access has spawned lots of wide-eyed...

Iraq is not the only "Government" to get a regime change. Say what you will, but the embedding of reporters with front line units and the bonding of the reporters to the military service men and women going in harm's way is a good thing. These faces and voices of the front line reporters that we've seen so much of since war's start are the very ones that will displace the Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, etc. of today's media. These new "Ernie Pyle" reporters are learning first hand that all that was said leading up to this war about Iraq,...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. BAHIA DE ACHOTINES, Panama (Reuters) - Scientist Kurt Schaefer slices a small hole in the side of a wriggling yellowfin tuna and inserts a tiny computer. Quickly he sews the slit back up, allowing just enough space for a thin fiber optic wand to protrude from the fish's side, before transferring the animal to a large seawater tank. "We like to joke we have remote control fish. It surprises the visitors," says Schaefer, pulling off a surgical glove. Working to protect the tuna from becoming an endangered species in the eastern...

After the first two days passed since the initial attack on Baghdad, many Americans were wondering, "Where is the 'shock and awe' that we were told to expect?" Sources at the Pentagon told the media, "If you have to ask, it's not 'shock and awe.'" On the third day, massive bombings were targeted on Baghdad locations, and Americans were told that "shock and awe" had begun. In reality, "shock and awe" began when the very first cruise missile hit its target. "Shock and awe" is not simply a campaign of pummeling an enemy through relentless bombardment of missiles and bombs....

Nearly a dozen Republican lawmakers have demanded that the Pentagon defend its decision allow TV journalists to accompany U.S. combat units in Iraq, saying it may serve no other purpose than to advance the heated ratings war. Among those signing a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld raising questions about the plan to "embed" journalists with U.S. military forces was Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. With President Bush expected to order an attack on Iraq sometime Wednesday, TV news networks, too, are grappling with the issue of access, including how much they will...

The Pentagon gave the starting signal to the war correspondents 27/02 02:24 Journalists started to join in the area of the Gulf the American military units which they will cover if the United States starts a war against Iraq, announced Wednesday evening the Pentagon. "Some started to join the units", declared with the AFP Victoria Clarke, the spokesman of the Pentagon by underlining however that it did not have to be drawn the conclusion from it that the White House had decided to launch an offensive against Iraq. The advertisement of the Pentagon is the last sign of the...

Longtime Eastside tech firm to close 2002-12-17 by Clayton Park Journal Business Editor REDMOND -- One of the Eastside's oldest technology companies announced Monday that it plans to shut down. Applied Microsystems Corp. CEO Stephen Verleye said the board of directors decided to recommend to shareholders that the company be liquidated after it was unable to raise funds to continue development of new products. The Redmond company, which was founded in 1979 and went public in 1995, currently employs 25 workers, down from 250 in 1997, its last profitable year. Up until recently, Applied Microsystems' primary business was making embedded...