Five Embeds Booted Out of Iraq in Recent Months

[leftchick]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000748266

NEW YORK As Iraq moves closer to its first democratic elections later this month, the number of news organizations requesting embedded slots with military units there is on the rise, according to officials. But those new embeds better watch their step. E&P has learned that five journalists have been kicked out of embed slots in the past three months for reporting secure information.

"They were all for operational security reasons, (revealing) something that would have been of use to the enemy," Maj. Kris Meyle, who runs the embed program, told E&P from Baghdad this morning. "Generally, it gets done very quickly. Usually it was something that was not done intentionally by the reporter."

Meyle would not disclose the identities of those who were "disembedded" or the news organizations for which they worked. But she did not recall any from newspapers. "I remember them being broadcast," she said.

She also warned that those seeking slots in an effort to get close coverage of the Iraqi elections later this month may be wasting their time. "We are telling people who request an embed during elections that they will not necessarily be near a polling place," Major Meyle said. "That is not our role."

[Coventina]

1. Yeah "secure" info like "the insurgents are winning"

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

2. Faux "News" employess no doubt. Geraldo's legacy.

[Cronus Protagonist]

8. Not likely, they run all their "news" by the Pentagon for approval

Recommended watching: Control Room for background information.




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[nashville_brook]

3. at least they let them live

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/12/10/journalists/

[LynnTheDem]

4. "first democratic elections"? WRONG. WTF is the problem w "journalists"??

Dear US StenoMedia:

Go to your news morgues.

Look up the following:

IRAQ. FREE ELECTIONS. Circa 1950s.

THANKS.

[Just Me]

5. It's called government-controlled media which is ANTI-DEMOCRACY!

The "truth" about what is happening is something which our government would argue is a danger to "operational security".

[gratuitous]

6. If only they'd written positively about No Child Left Behind

Then, like media whore Armstrong Williams, they could have gotten an extra six-figures courtesy of the you and me, the American taxpayers!

[leftchick]

7. They had 800 for shock-n-awe.....

hardly any for the continued masacre.....

<snip>
Embedded journalists in Iraq topped 800 at the height of combat in 2003, but their number has since dwindled to the double digits in the past year or so. The tally increased briefly in October when the first Marine Expeditionary Force prepared for its Fallujah assault, drawing 70 journalists to its ranks alone.

[Earth_First]

9. 'Democracy' in 'action'

media blackout

[TacticalPeek]

10. Here we are. Bring 'em on.

:silly:

[struggle4progress]

11. kick for political censorship

[JoFerret]

12. Twas ever thus

Phillip Gibbs was forced to stay in Paris when the French mobilized in August 1914. The press have always been "embedded"- it's just that a few of them escaped "going native".

[leftchick]

13. this is a very big story...

once again ignored.