An embedded journalist is an in-bed journalist

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.’

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