CMN 4100 Lecture 5: CMN 4100 Lecture 5
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Seeds of the embedding program after vietnam war (media and military and public relations were very strained) Frankly our job is to win the war. So we are going to attempt to dominate the information environment lt. col. rick long, speaking on embeds in second. The point wasn"t that i wasn"t reporting the truth; the point was that i was reporting the marine grunt truth which had also become my truth embedded journalist gordon dillow. Sometimes canadian troops detain the wrong person, but this is quickly rectified. Sometimes there is clear evidence whereas other times they have handed back detainees to the afghan government to deal with. Q: the soldier"s honesty about military screw-ups described by christie is arguably uncharacteristic for the military to openly criticize themselves.