dinsdag, april 15, 2003
With dramatic images of the so-called Fall of Baghdad on Wednesday doubtlessly in their collective mind's eye, several newspaper journalists who previously had been embedded with U.S. military units satisfied by the end of last week their urge to merge with the nonembedded reporters and photographers who now have more freedom to move about Iraq's capital city.
Around the same time, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times each had an embed who swapped one military host for another. "It's still too early to scrap battlefield coverage. There's still fighting going on in some places," USA Today World Editor Elisa Tinsley told E&P. Then, too, a number of editors have advised their reporters and photographers in Iraq that the capital should be considered neither safe nor secure. As a result, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., all have counseled their embedded journalists to stay with the military units they have been covering.
But The Washington Post is steering a very different course, with two of its nine embeds having bid farewell to their MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), according to a story in The New York Times on Friday. "We have to be able to go here and there," Phil Bennett, the Post's assistant managing editor for foreign news, told the Times, "and that has to be based on our decision-making rather than military decision-making."
Bron: Editing and Publishing.
Around the same time, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times each had an embed who swapped one military host for another. "It's still too early to scrap battlefield coverage. There's still fighting going on in some places," USA Today World Editor Elisa Tinsley told E&P. Then, too, a number of editors have advised their reporters and photographers in Iraq that the capital should be considered neither safe nor secure. As a result, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., all have counseled their embedded journalists to stay with the military units they have been covering.
But The Washington Post is steering a very different course, with two of its nine embeds having bid farewell to their MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), according to a story in The New York Times on Friday. "We have to be able to go here and there," Phil Bennett, the Post's assistant managing editor for foreign news, told the Times, "and that has to be based on our decision-making rather than military decision-making."
Bron: Editing and Publishing.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 20:43
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