No 'right' for media to embed with troops

[jynxedu]

something to chew on...

There is no constitutional right allowing journalists to cover troops in a war zone, a U.S. appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday.

" ... We find that there is no constitutional right for the media to embed with U.S. military forces in combat," the appeals court said in part.

court ruling story

Does it matter that it was Larry Flint that started it?

[U-96]

I thought embedding was drawn up by Washington/Downing Street to make sure that journalists went and filmed where they were told rather than working on their own initiative and filming uncensored? /cynical mode off

[no1_vern]

Sounds like an excellent conspiracy theory:

If the soldiers know where all the journalists are then the soldiers can do what they want where they know that there are no journalists.