Citas | 'Embedding' | Joseph L. Galloway | Editor and Publisher
Have you noticed anything different as Week Two of Gulf War II draws to a close? It's the briefings. They seem, well, almost irrelevant, and certainly are five or six hours out of date by the time they air…
The 700-plus embedded media people riding into battle with the Marines and Army troops on the bumpy, muddy, sandy roads converging on Baghdad. They all look like hell: caked with yellow sand; chemical suits stiff with dirt and mud and sweat; goggles keeping the blowing sand out of their eyes. They look just like the soldiers and Marines all around them. They are talking real-time into microphones and satellite phones, bringing us the news as it happens on their piece of a huge battleground.
