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LiberalArkie

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18. I remember watching Bernard Shaw reporting from Baghdad live during th fist bombing runs

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Sat Oct 5, 2024, 06:46 PM

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over a leased telephone line that the Government did not know how to disconnect

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Anyone here old enough to remember when CNN [View all] senseandsensibility Oct 5 OP

Media has always embedded reporters with the military. Swede Oct 5 #1

That is not the same as being embedded. senseandsensibility Oct 5 #5

Sorry, I misunderstood. Swede Oct 5 #12

Don Harris was embedded with troops in Vietnam. Attilatheblond Oct 5 #25

I thought most of the hosts at msnbc had declared Ilsa Oct 5 #2

I guess those days are gone senseandsensibility Oct 5 #3

Agreed. 'Embedded' is not a good appelation for reporters IMO as it is entirely tainted because... brush Oct 5 #4

And Cheney... displacedvermoter Oct 5 #6

Yes, and Cheney. brush Oct 5 #7

Miller was atrocious senseandsensibility Oct 5 #8

Yes. I've heard it used many times. dmr Oct 5 #9

I watch MSNBC quite a lot radical noodle Oct 5 #23

Same here. dmr Oct 5 #31

'Embedded with' does in fact mean "in bed with"--- doesn't it? Jack Valentino Oct 5 #10

No. The root of the word is embed. TwilightZone Oct 5 #14

"insert an object into another object" Jack Valentino Oct 5 #15

I sure do! MLF1981 Oct 5 #11

I remember when David Bloom of NBC died while embedded no_hypocrisy Oct 5 #13

and Bob Woodward from ABC Flatrat Oct 5 #17

I remember David - he and Soledad were great news anchors. nt TBF Oct 15 #34

War correspondents have always been embedded with the militarry. former9thward Oct 5 #16

I remember watching Bernard Shaw reporting from Baghdad live during th fist bombing runs LiberalArkie Oct 5 #18

Having to listen to his firehose of lies could give them traumatic brain injury surfered Oct 5 #19

"Firehose of lies" Haggard Celine Oct 5 #29

I think the term embed was employed in the 2016 yorkster Oct 5 #20

We don't need that. 3Hotdogs Oct 5 #21

I'm old enough to remember when B.See Oct 5 #22

I was in middle age in those days. Wonder Why Oct 5 #24

I quit television news and opinion entirely in the run-up to the Iraq war. hunter Oct 5 #26

I always thought they considered Katy Tur BumRushDaShow Oct 5 #27

I'm old enough to remember when ESPN ran a news program every AM. Ferrets are Cool Oct 5 #28

I am old enough to remember when they had a large staff of reporters and reported real news Warpy Oct 5 #30

Arthur Kent - the Scud Stud Poiuyt Oct 5 #32

But can any of them translate Jabberwock? usonian Oct 5 #33