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11/22/2004 Archived Entry: "To get the whole picture we need embeds on both sides"

Posted by steve @ 03:09 PM EST [Link]

FRANKLY, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESPOND: (via Brothers Judd Blog) I realized that al-Guardian was probably the biggest rag in the entire "mainstream" newspaper industry a long time ago but I'm still occasionally astonished by what appears in it. The latest example is broadcaster Alex Thomson's call for embedded reporters to be placed with Iraqi insurgents.

I'd quote from it but it's so appalling that you have to read all of it in context. I particularly enjoyed how the war on terror was either "so-called" or itself placed in quotation marks while the word martyr (relating to insurgents) was left on its own.

Read on.