August 17, 2006
Another Press Fault
You remember how the American press was bemoaning the perils of embedding - no, not that they would be physically hurt, but that they would become beholden to the American Armed Forces, and horrors! might even favor the military because they spent so much time with them.
Well, why don't they have similar worries when it comes to foreign stringers, who do the bulk of the international reporting for the American press? Instead, they have no worries about who they hire to do their reporting, no matter how often it leads to biased, inaccurate, or faked coverage. Apparently the press thinks foriegners are made of far sterner stuff than Americans, able to withstand any and all entanglements, biases, and scrupulously fair and honest.
