How Good the Journalism of the 'Embeds'?

NPR | By John Burnett,

Published April 29, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Robert Siegel explores the much-ballyhooed decision to include hundreds of reporters with troops in Iraq. In Pentagon terms these reporters were "embedded" with the U.S. forces. We hear the thoughts of Deputy Defense Secretary Brian Whitman, Washington Post reporter Rick Atkinson, Harvard scholar Marvin Kalb, NPR's John Burnett and writer Eric Alterman.

John Burnett

John Burnett is the Southwest Correspondent on the National Desk.

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Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.

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