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CNN cut ties with a freelance photojournalist based in Gaza hours after a photo emerged purportedly showing a top Hamas leader kissing the photographer on the cheek. Freelancer Hassan Eslaiah can be seen in the photo being friendly with Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7 massacre that killed 1,400 Israelis. The photo came to light after HonestReporting, a pro-Israel media watchdog group, published a report Wednesday claiming Eslaiah and other photojournalists were embedded with Hamas terrorists on the day they attacked Israel last month.

During his questioning of the service chiefs now appearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Sylvestre Reyes, D-Tx, expressed his hope the military would look into revising their policy of embedding reporters with troops. (Paraphrasing loosely) Rep. Reyes said the troops did not need the interference and we did not need to be feeding ammunition to Al Jezeera. General Michael Hagee, Marine Corps Commandant, answered that embedding reporters with the troops works quite well, despite problems, and is an important means to keep the American people informed. Purpose of the hearing is the Status of the Armed Forces. C-Span...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38351 Wednesday, May 5, 2004 How is the war really going? Posted: May 5, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Hugh Hewitt © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A year after the victory in the second Iraq War, the third Iraq War isn't going so well. Or if it is, the American public isn't hearing about it. Which is why Secretary Rumsfeld needs to send one of his famed "snowflake" memos (because they come in flurries) to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The subject: Keeping the American people in...

2 Time Magazine Journalists Hurt in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior reporter and a veteran photographer for Time magazine were wounded along with two U.S. soldiers when a grenade was tossed into their Humvee, the military and the magazine said Thursday. Time senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf and contributing photographer James Nachtwey were traveling with a U.S. Army patrol in Baghdad on Wednesday night when the attack occurred, a statement from Time managing editor Jim Kelley said. A military spokesman said they were with a unit of the Army's 1st Armored Division. The military official, who spoke only condition of...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two journalists with Time magazine were wounded, one seriously, when a hand grenade was thrown at U.S. forces they were accompanying in Baghdad, a U.S. military official said on Thursday. The official said the incident took place late on Wednesday as the journalists accompanied troops on a U.S. patrol in the Iraqi capital, where U.S. forces are struggling to restore security that collapsed after they invaded Iraq in March. He declined to name the journalists. "There were two journalists from Time magazine ...t hey were participating in a patrol in the First A.D. (Armored Division) area in...

Robert E. Lee once said, "it is well that war should be so terrible, otherwise men would grow too fond of it." His statement is true, but as with any momentous historical event (whether that event was for good or for ill), human beings have the capacity to study and learn from that event. So it is with the recent war in Iraq. We are studying and learning from our experience in fighting the regime of Saddam Hussein, and will apply lessons learned in both the political and military sphere to future challenges. As we do, we would also do...

<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>

Television reports produced by "embedded" correspondents in the Iraq conflict gave a sanitised picture of war, according to an academic study published by the BBC today. Researchers found that although reporters who accompanied the British and US military were able to be objective, they avoided images that would be too graphic or violent for British television. Some of the coverage resembled a "war film". Today, a senior BBC news executive will make a controversial case for desanitising the presentation of war on British television. In a speech to a conference of broadcasters in Budapest, Mark Damazer, deputy director of BBC...

<p>CBS News reporter Jim Axelrod said embedding reporters with troops during the Iraq war was "a huge success."</p> <p>The media and the public got an honest, firsthand, often live, account of the war and soldiers had their stories told, something Axelrod said did not happen in the first Gulf War.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military briefly issued an order Thursday that could have restricted journalists from accompanying American troops on all but routine missions in Iraq, including operations aimed at capturing or killing Saddam Hussein. The directive told commanders throughout Iraq that reporters, photographers and television crews would be prohibited from traveling with the military on some operations as so-called "embedded" journalists. The U.S. military headquarters in Baghdad rescinded the order shortly after The Associated Press reported on it. No explanation was given. About 700 journalists were with troops during the early combat phase in the Iraq war. They...

WASHINGTON -- A Marine general in Iraq ripped front-line journalists for "Chicken Little" coverage of the March invasion, and advised military leaders to "never forget how quickly the press jumped on the bandwagon of doom and gloom," a critical internal study of the war reveals. "Visions of Vietnam danced in reporters' heads" during halts in the march to Baghdad, griped the commanding general of the 1st Marine Division in a 67-page draft report obtained by WorldNetDaily. Maj. Gen. James N. Mattis Maj. Gen. James N. Mattis heaped scorn on "unilateral" correspondents in his May 29 report. He said they "routinely"...

Jewish World Review May 30, 2003 / 28 Iyar, 5763Jack Kelly Our best and brightest are not at Harvard http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | One of the smarter of the many smart decisions made by the Pentagon during Operation Iraqi Freedom was the decision widely to "embed" journalists with U.S. troops. I think it may cause a sea change in the attitude of journalists toward soldiers. I am writing now to express my respect for and appreciation of the soldiers in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the First Armored Division, with whom I was embedded, and the soldiers of the 3rd...

Journalist Bloom Eulogized at Funeral Melanie Bloom, center, hold hands with her children, as she follows behind the casket of her husband and their father David Bloom, a NBC reporter, after funeral services in New York, Wednesday April 16, 2003. Bloom, 39, the weekend anchor of NBC's ``Today'' and a former White House correspondent, died of an apparent blood clot April 6 while embedded with a military unit in Iraq. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews) By DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterNBC News correspondent David Bloom, who died while covering the war in Iraq, was eulogized at his funeral Wednesday as a modern-day Ernie...

Thomas SowellThe recent deaths of journalists in Baghdad are more than just personal tragedies. Both the chances that these journalists have taken and the indignant reactions by the surviving journalists are a sad sign of a growing lack of realism in our times, especially among the intelligentsia in the media and in academia. More than a century after General Sherman said, "War is hell," it still seems to come as a great shock to some people when journalists get killed in the middle of a battle zone. The fact that they were warned beforehand by American authorities that no special...

Just announced 5 minutes ago, journalist Michael Kelley embedded with US troops for the Atlantic Monthly Magazine was reported killed during the military action at Baghdad International airport.That's all.