An embedded journalist is
an in-bed journalist
In the initial period of
the second Iraq war when the phrase ‘embedded journalism’ gained currency, one
journalist in California wondered—quite loud-- how an embedded journalist can
remain neutral. If you spend your day
and night with a group of people, how can you possibly be critical of that
group? That writer called an embedded
journalist an in-bed journalist. Nine
years later, Paula Broadwell, an embedded journalist with General Petraeus in
Afghanistan, has proved the point. All
In, Petraeus’s biography written by Broadwell, should now be seen as an eulogy
written not by a neutral observer but by a lover. After the exposed Petreaus-Broadwell affair
you will be justified in guessing the context in which Boradwell used the
expression ‘All In.’
Photo, courtesy of the ‘Business
Insider.’
