title: Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq
author:  Bill Katovsky 
description: In comparison to the Gulf War of 1991, in which the Pentagon controlled the news as tightly as possible, the war of 2003 was a wide-open affair for reporters. This was partly done to counteract propaganda coming from the Iraqi government; it was also an attempt to control and influence the news by keeping journalists under close watch. To this end, the Pentagon developed a "slick new public relations concept known as embedding." (xiii galley) Embedded journalists lived, ate, and traveled with the troops. They also came under enemy fire with the troops. In fact, as a group, the roughly 2,700 journalists in Iraq were more likely to be killed in combat than the quarter million American and British soldiers. Traveling with troops was generally safer and afforded better access, but what about journalistic ethics? That is question at the core of this fascinating book and one proves to have many different answers.
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  Journalism Studies
  ISSN: 1461-670X (Print) 1469-9699 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjos20
  Ukraine, Mainstream Media and Conflict
  Propaganda
  Oliver Boyd-Barrett
  To cite this article: Oliver Boyd-Barrett (2017) Ukraine, Mainstream Media and Conflict
  Propaganda, Journalism Studies, 18:8, 1016-1034, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2015.1099461
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  Published online: 29 Oct 2015.
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