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Originally Posted by fatboy
If I knew some t.v. producers, I would recommend a weekly reality show with reporters embedded in the different units. Of course, there are some bad things going on in Iraq. Can it all be bad? If you watch the mainstream media, that's the impression you get.
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News is usually only new when it's bad news. Business as usual isn't considered news. You don't report an airplane taking of and landing safely some time later, you only report it when a plane crashes, killing a lot of people. The same with Iraq. Do you really want to see soldiers on patrol, when nothing happens? And while that is being aired, not seeing other soldiers torturing prisoners?
What I don't understand is why you take embedded reporters seriously. They are like a dog on a collar. The army can dictate 99% of what they see, and more important, what they don't see. That's not what journalism is about, to me.