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(20,394 posts) Sat Oct 5, 2024, 04:47 PM Oct 5

Anyone here old enough to remember when CNN [View all]

had reporrters "embedded" with the military during the Iraq War? It was a term they used, but it was controversial because the war itself was extremely controversial even at the time, and we were being fed the military's point of view unfiltered. Many people were angry about it, and the embedded reporters were accused of being stenographers. Before this, "war correspondents" were not embedded with the military.

Well, I noticed today that MSNBC is now called their reporters who follow cheato on the trail "embedded" campaign reporters. They're apparently proud of this, and run a chyron with this title below the reporters' name. But just as with the CNN embedded reporters during Iraq, this is not the flex they seem to think it is. Apparently, they are proud that they are being fed the cheato campaign's talking points firsthand so that they can share them unfiltered with us.

Just as during the Iraq War, I say no thanks. I didn't need embedded rightwing stenographers then, and I don't need them now.

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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