] In essence, that's the question being debated by
] journalists and commentators after six days of "grunt-eye
] view" footage shot from rumbling tanks and speeding
] Humvees.
]
] Are the "embeds," as the reporters assigned to military
] units are known in current parlance, too cozy with the
] U.S. military forces they're in Iraq to cover?
]
] Unfortunately I couldn't find the transcript of the
] interview I heard with the New York Times' Chris Hedges
] on NPR on Saturday (I understand that NPR is behind in
] its transcriptions), because the veteran foreign
] correspondent -- Central America, Bosnia and the West
] Bank -- spoke eloquently about why he would only be able
] to do his work as a "unilateral" or
] free-to-move-about-as-you-please reporter. "Embed" did
] not compute for Chris Hedges, who recently published War
] Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.