Embedded : the media at war in Iraq / Bill Katovsky, Timothy Carlson.

"An oral history"--Jacket.

Introduction -- Charging into Bad-Guy Country with Custer: Detroit News Reporter John Bebow -- Covering Wars Takes Her Far from Home: San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Anna Badkhen -- The Race to Baghdad: CBS Evening News Correspondent Jim Axelrod -- Dodging Death: Voice of America's East Africa Bureau Chief Alisha Ryu -- Doing Good Deeds with the Devil Docs: CNN and Time Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta -- Groundhog's Day at CENTCOM's Media Center: New York Magazine Media Critic Michael Wolff -- "My Marines": Orange County Register Columnist Gordon Dillow -- The Fixer: Hasan Aweidah, aka PJ -- Beyond Good and Evil: CNN Baghdad Bureau Chief Jane Arraf -- O Brother, Where Art Thou? Washington Times Chief Photographer Joe Eddins -- Media Gatekeeper and Troubleshooter: U.S. Army Colonel Guy Shields, Public Affairs Officer -- War-Gaming with Lieutenant General William Wallace: USA Today Reporter Steve Komarow -- Death in the Afternoon: El Correo and Telecinco Correspondent Mercedes Gallego -- Hello to All That: U.K.'s News of the World Reporter Chris Bucktin -- It's Deja Vu All Over Again: GLOBE TV Executive Producer and ABC News and Nightline Correspondent Mike Cerre -- Capturing the War's Most Memorable Image: Time Magazine Photographer Yuri Kozyrev -- Back to Baghdad: CNN International Correspondent Nic Robertson -- Once a Marine, Always a Marine: San Francisco Chronicle Reporter John Koopman -- Truth vs. Beauty: Montreal Freelance Photographer Robert J. Galbraith -- Where the Boys Are: Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee) Military Reporter Chantal Escoto -- The Birds and the Bees and a Pest Named Geraldo: KSTP-TV (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Reporter Dean Staley -- Sorry, No Room Service at Saddam's Presidential Palace: Los Angeles Times Staff Writer David Zucchino -- Ambushed on the Highway: Philippines TV (ABS-CBN) Correspondents Eric Tulfo and Maxie Santiago -- The Moral Compass of Iraq: New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief John Burns -- Boys in the Bradley: San Francisco Chronicle Reporter Carl Nolte -- Reporting from the Trenches: CBS News White House Correspondent and Weekend Anchor John Roberts -- Trapped in the Media Crossfire: Al Jazeera Correspondent Amr El-Kakhy -- They Fight. We Report. You Decide. Fox News Reporter Rick Levanthal -- Trying Not to Go Deaf on the Gun Line: Boston Globe Reporter Scott Bernard Nelson -- Semper Fido! On Duty to Sniff Bombs: CENTCOM's Jocko -- The Birth of Embedding as Pentagon War Policy: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Bryan Whitman -- The Hemingway Legacy: Kansas City Star Staff Writer Matt Schofield -- War Junkie: BBC News Special Correspondent Ben Brown -- High-Tech Desert Rats: Wired Reporter Josh Davis -- The Checkpoint Killing: Washington Post Reporter William Branigin -- What Romance Aboard the War Boat? Jerusalem Post Reporter Janine Zacharia -- On the Road with Unilaterals: Los Angeles Times Translator and Driver Mohammed Fahmy -- Mishandled by His Iraqi Minders: New York Times Staff Photographer Tyler Hicks -- Absurdity of War: British Lieutenant Colonel Robert Partridge, Public Affairs Officer -- "All is Vanity": Los Angeles Times Reporter Geoffrey Mohan -- My First War: Newsweek Reporter Kevin Peraino -- Making the Media Feel at Home: Sergeant Major Carol Sobel, Public Affairs Officer -- Going Live: CNN Correspondent Martin Savidge -- The Arab Perspective: Abu Dhabi TV Correspondent Amir Al-Mounaiery -- Marriage Under Fire: Washington Post's Moscow Bureau Chiefs Susan Glasser and Peter Baker -- Measuring the True Cost of War: Peace Activist Marla Ruzicka -- Going from Ground Zero to the Ground War: Newsday Reporter Graham Rayman -- View from ACross the Pond: BBC News Special Correspondent Gavin Hewitt -- The Disembed: Harrisburg's Patriot-News Washington Reporter Brett Leiberman -- The Sound War: National Public Radio Correspondent Eric Westervelt -- Our Warrior Youth: Rolling Stone Reporter Evan Wright -- Sharp Shooters: Combat Cameraman Staff Sergeant Ronald Mitchell -- Maintaining a Family Legacy: Fox News Producer and Reporter Maya Zumwalt -- The Fallujah Incident: London Daily Mirror Reporter Chris Hughes and Freelance Photographer Julian Andrews -- Crossing the Journalistic Divide: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Military Affairs Reporter Ron Martz -- Lending Assistance to a Dangerous Profession: Committee to Protect Journalists' Michael Massing -- Choosing the Right Target: CBS News Cameraman Mario DeCarvalho -- The Ping, Ping, Ping of Bullets Hitting My Car: Newsweek Reporter Scott Johnson -- Appendix. Department of Defense Embedment Manual -- Notes and Acknowledgments -- In Memoriam.

""The interviews crackle with immediacy." -The New York Times "It is my hope that this outstanding piece of work will reach the widest possible distribution and readership." -Dan Rather, CBS News, on the John Burns interview EMBEDDED is a collection of deeply emotional and highly personal accounts of covering the Iraq War. Many of the world's top war correspondents and photographers speak candidly about life on the battlefield. Here are articulate and heartfelt descriptions of fear and firefights, of bullets and banalities, of risking death and meeting deadlines. With over sixty interviews conducted in Kuwait and Iraq shortly after many returned home, Katovsky and Carlson allowed these journalists to step outside their professional role as journalists and examine the lethal allure of combat reporting. Here is CBS Evening News correspondent Jim Axelrod discussing the perils of racing to Baghdad while despondent over the death of a television colleague and being unexpectedly comforted by ABC News Nightline's Ted Koppel; Newsweek reporter Scott Johnson unwittingly driving into an ambush and then kicking out the windshield of his bullet-riddled car to escape the Iraqi gunmen; New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief John Burns's brave refusal to be intimidated by his Iraqi information ministry minders; and many, many more. Each interview in EMBEDDED maps its own personal path and narrative arc, while presenting an emotional window to war and reporting. Taken individually, each offers a unique view of the most-covered war in history. Collectively, EMBEDDED is an eyewitness to history that will do for the war in Iraq what Michael Herr's Dispatches did for Vietnam."--Publisher description.

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