Troop's Eye view is just that..

"I haven't seen any destroyed tanks. I haven't seen any dead bodies. I haven't seen any disturbing images," said Jones. From the Pentagon's point of view, "it's been one magnificent recruitment video." Howard Kurtz quotes a press director's view of how embedded journalism is taking place during the war. Throughout the course, we have seen many examples of censorship by the American government, and I feel this is one case where the opposite is true; it is the journalists' themselves exhibiting a form of self-censorship. The images and information that embedded journalists recieve are far more in depth than that of a pool journalist, which is important in two aspects; one is that they are prevy to information otherwise unattainable in the media, and two-that the information they do have is presented subjectively. While I agree with using embedded journalism as a medium to present a realistic way of how the war is actually being run, it is difficult to imagine an embedded journalist portraying the troops they live with in a negative light. The occasional military mishap, friendly fire death, or civilian casualty might be overlooked, giving way to a successful Apache helicopter mission.