Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Saturday, April 05, 2003 First embedded U.S. journalist dies in Iraq war accident / He was in a humvee that drove into a canal Michael Kelly, the magazine editor credited with breathing new life into the Atlantic Monthly, was killed Friday in Iraq. He is the first casualty among American journalists embedded with U.S. troops.I'm sorry to hear about this, but I'm also willing to use it as an excuse to speechify because this article made me realize something: isn't it somehow creepy and, I don't know, meta that one of the big catchphrases from this war is "embedded journalism," since the phrase must have caught on from the media's use of it. Part of the creepiness is also the awfulness of the term: an "embedded journalist" sounds like something that requires oral surgery. "Embedded journalism" it's an awful phrase, particularly when you've got a situation like here, it refers to a a dead man. posted by Jeff Lester | 2:44 PM | |
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