cnn's michael ware is in georgia....are there any reporters in iraq? any news?

[spanone]

our people are dying over there......and no one is reporting on it.

[Muttocracy]

1. I wonder if reporters were pulled out of Afghanistan too. nt

[spanone]

3. iraq has fallen of the earth. i guess

[MichaelHarris]

2. most journalists

realized how bad the embed contract was in relation to freedom of speech and left. The ones still there are under no such embed censorship and thus have no protection, that's why their numbers are so few. To sum it up in simple terms, report what we say or we won't protect you.

There have been a trickle of stories about this from the media and I truly think the number of stories will grow. As a photojournalist I would never sign on to some set of rules that prohibited the truth, that is the smear the media has to face, they signed up to prohibit that truth. This is the smudge that won't go away, they compromised ethics for glory. They wanted the story so bad they did the one thing a journalist should never do, they put make-up on a pig.

For a voice on this please read: 4,000 U.S. Deaths, and a Handful of Images

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/world/middleeast/26censor.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Supersedeas]

4. America at War -- banners flying in the background -- loud obnoxious music: remember those days