Hotel Warrior : The Pools

" The system had taken months of negotiations between the Pentagon and Washington bureau chiefs attempting to ensure fair access to the battlefield. It had been subverted with an imperial handshake." (pg.34) Is fair though defined as, writing what you see or writing what you think the military will find acceptable. The fear was that if you did write negative information you would not be given a chance to write further stories, let alone have an interview with General Schwarzkopf. Also the pool system had pools within itself, from the largest one such as the print pool to the smallest one being the radio pool.
Then we have the problem of not what you know but who you know in the case of Mr. Galloway, where General Schwarzkopf " ordered that a slot be quietly created " (pg.34) for him. To Mr. Galloway's credit " he was one of the few reporters set to Saudi Arabia with prior combat experience" (pg. 33). One reason for his being accepted and getting his work completed quicker than others was because his stories were always positive in nature with regards to the military.