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This 6 page paper looks at the CNN organization and why their embedded reporting is difficult on residents. CNN employs many residents of Georgia so sending reporters to Iraq is stressful for the region. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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magazine does for fun. It recognizes the absurd, preposterous, and outrageous events and activities that have been undertaken by various individuals in Georgia (2000). One item noted
in the year 2000 was the outrageous stunts Peter Arnett pulled as a war correspondent with CNN during 1998; it was reported that the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter claimed he
was not to blame, and insisted that he had nothing to do with the report (2000). Essentially, he was only reading a script and he did not seem to understand
why he did not get any further assignments. He said: "They gave me a beeper, and they said, Sit by the beeper. But it hasnt beeped" (2000, p.78). That is
some humor from Georgia regarding Peter Arnett. Fast forward to 2003 with the war in Iraq and no one is laughing at Peter Arnett any longer. The former CNN reporter
jumped to NBC and was fired after he seemed to be sympathetic to the Iraqi cause. And while CNN sits in the heart of Atlanta, its coverage of the
war is really based on a general compilation of views from across America. It really does not have a decided focus on its home state. At the same time, some
of its imbedded reporters are from Georgia and have traveled with units from the region. Correspondent Ann Tyson had to take week-long courses at bases in Georgia and Virginia, for
training to be "embedded " (Wiltenburg, 2003). They had followed individual US military units to war as well and embedding, it is thought, had been the Pentagons answer
to pervasive criticism of press-handling policies (2003). Officials have pledged that reporters interviewing and their ability to write freely about what they learn must be restricted only in cases
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