Does any one have an opinion on how the general public feels about embedding our troupes with journalists?

Question

Their opinions could could completely influence how readers think about the war.

Answer 1

Very little positive information is forhcoming from a media that slants its opinion the way the US media does. This is a demoralizing factor amongst our troops and they genuinely distrust the media, especially when the media testifies against our troops regarding combat incidents. It makes you wonder how many media casualty's were actually caused by the insurgency, doesn't it?

I say, ship them all back home. They have caused nothing but disharmony in the field, and slanted views and opinion regarding the war.

Answer 2

We need more embedded reporters. These are the reporters who have a clue what it is actually like in Iraq.

People don't realize that the non-embedded reporters stay in the green zone and narrate scripts written at network headquarters.

As a result the 'news' the American people get is biased to the bloody and the spectacular (the 'explosion of the day') as well as the political opinions of those who write the story.

Answer 3

We were able to bring a halt to the carnage in Vietnam simply because REAL Journalists were not "in Bed" with the Administration and agreed to report only what the Military told them. I lost all respect for American Journalism when they agreed to get into bed with the military ... and then tried to snowball the American People into believing we were seeing what was "really happening" in Iraq.

How absurd. How stupid did they think All Americans were? Tom Brokaw: A member of the Worst Generation.

Of course this is only my opinion, and if we are lucky that right won't be taken away from me completely by the Military Theocracy that is currently installed in the White House.

Answer 4

Well, normally you embed the JOURNALISTS with the TROOPS... Doing the inverse could be very interesting ! :-?

Journalists ARE embedded with the troops... or at least have the opportunity to be.

I'm saddened though that the MEDIA doesn't like to publish or broadcast all that those journalists see... ONLY the sensational and the bloody.

Answer 5

The correct spelling is T-R-O-O-P-S. And I see no harm in embedding our troop's with Journalist as long as they are both consenting couples and are of leqal age. I think that it is a wonderful thing to have embedding love in the time of war, much like an old Clark Gable movie.

Answer 6

Embedding journalists with our troops helps put a face on what's going on over there but I think it may destract some of our troops and tha'ts a bad thing.

Answer 7

It is vital that the American people have a way to know what our government is doing. If not for journalists, there would be only war propaganda. Impossible.

Answer 8

We need more journalists embedded, not less.