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From the Pentagon’s perspective, embedding was the signature innovation in press-military relations during the Iraq war, and it will almost certainly carry over into the next conflict. Underlying the embedding process were larger issues:
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During wartime, what happens to reporters’ adversarial approach? Should it be set aside, or at least turned down a few notches?
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To what extent do the responsibilities of citizenship supersede those of journalism?
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Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, eds., Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq (Guil-ford, CT: Lyons Press, 2003), 156.
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Seib, P. (2004). On The Team?:. In: Beyond the Front Lines. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-7382-5_4
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