TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

PROMO  6/15/2008      "The Embed"
*When the war in Iraq started over 770 journalists went with Coalition
troops. 5 years later there are fewer than 20. What happened? In this
hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the embed system. How can
journalists accurately report on the very soldiers who protect them? Has
the US military made the journalist a weapon of war? 

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "The Embed"


0:01 - 14:13        SEGMENT 1: (14:14)
            Mike Hoyt is Executive Editor of the Columbia Journalism
            Review.  He edited the book "Reporting Iraq: An Oral
            History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It." 
            He talks with Steve Paulson about an e-mail by a Wall
            Street Journal correspondent that created a furor within
            the journalistic community about the role and
            responsibility of embedded reporters.
                    
            Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

14:14 - 14:43  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

14:44 - 37:06       SEGMENT 2: (22:24)
            Brian Palmer is a veteran journalist and foreign
            correspondent.  He embedded with the First
            Battalion/Second Marines three times between 2004 and
            2006.  He's now made a documentary film called "Full
            Disclosure," about the experience.  He tells Anne
            Strainchamps that too much embedded reportage becomes
            cheerleading for new weapons systems; and that he still
            doesn't know how to strike the right balance between
            photographing the truth of war and respecting the
            families of the fallen.  Also, Col. David Lapan is
            Director of Public Affairs for the U.S. Marine Corps and
            one of the architect's of the Department of Defense's
            Embedded Media Program.  He tells Jim Fleming how the
            program evolved and why the Pentagon thinks that overall,
            it has been a success. 
                    
            Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio
            International."

37:07 - 37:36       LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

37:37 - 53:00       SEGMENT 3: (15:23)
            Deborah Scranton gives cameras directly to soldiers, She
            edits their footage over the internet.  Her documentary
            "The War Tapes" was nominated for an Academy Award."  Now
            she has completed "Bad Voodoo's War," focusing on Sgt.
            Toby Nunn of the New Hampshire National Guard.  She talks
            with Steve Paulson and we hear intensely powerful clips
            from the film.  
                    
            Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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