Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq.(Book Review)

From: Michigan Law Review | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

EMBEDDED: THE MEDIA AT WAR IN IRAQ. By Bill Katovsky (1) and Timothy Carlson. (2) Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 422. $23.95.

Due largely to the first widespread availability of the telegraph, through which breaking stories could be transmitted to the presses in moments, the debut of the American war correspondent occurred during the Civil War. (3) From their beginning, American war correspondents have frequently "embedded" with the troops on whom they reported. (4) General Grant, for example, allowed his favorite New York Herald reporter to travel ...

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