The military and the media - uneasy bedfellows

By Peter Feuilherade, BBC

With the world's media covering British, US and coalition forces fighting in major conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the relationship between the military and the media is becoming increasingly fraught, a conference of international broadcasters has heard.
At today's News Xchange gathering in Istanbul, leading foreign correspondents from US and British TV networks expressed serious misgivings about the system of "embedding" reporters with the military.

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