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Thursday, March 27, 2003
Embedded on in-bed-with?
When you get right down to it, "embedding" the reporters was the smartest thing that the Pentagon has done so far in this war. The military controls what they see (and by extension, what we see) and what they report on. These Ernie Pyle wanna-bes (sit down, Michael Kelly) in their Kevlar and bush jackets, and bandanas can't wander off the path to see what is really happening in the forest. And that suits the cable stations and news organizations just fine, making it easier to wave the flag and provide us with "home front" stories featuring the girl he left behind or the stoic rural folks talking about the All American quarterback-son gone off to fight for freedom and democracy and bringing Hardees to the victims of evil. Archetypes sell themselves..
The end product is "America's war" as opposed to "the war" which is what happens to all who are involved, willingly or not. We have to rely on the foreign press to show us what is really happening as the domestic press looks on disapprovingly, alarmed that the public might see that watching war unfold is a lot like watching sausage being made, and we can't have that. No need to discuss failed international relations or wars of aggression or policy failures or.....well, anything that might give the American public moral vertigo. It's all rah-rah and hey, look at the funny Direct -TV commercial, and hon, can you get me a beer while you're up? Empty calories for empty heads. We've got lots to look at...just nothing worth seeing.
Here's something that you won't see from the US media.
I hope you felt shock and awe.
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