Controlling the Media (embeds) in Iraq

[Hacksaw]

As we all know

Education does not necessarily equal intelligence...

Too bad that you seem to have run into your share of folks like that, although in retrospect my entire extended family expressed their collective relief when I retired.

Live well and row

[Van]

This sounds like someone with an axe to grind about the embed program who will find an audience of sympathetic ears among a body of academic peer reviewers who likely have very little experience in newsrooms.

Brant nailed it. This is another manifestation of the same pattern of behavior displayed by the flakiest and most vocal segment of the anthropological community.

And there is no chance that resentment towards reporters who went into harms' way to get their story and were richly rewarded have inspired professional jealousy.