If you want to know what you’ll be allowed to know about Gulf War II while it’s going on, you need to read this item.
Editor & Publisher — the newspaper industry’s trade magazine — is reporting which papers will be sending how many reporters and photographers to Iraq, what units they’ll be deployed with, and what they’ll be allowed to report.
[Col. Jay] DeFrank [director of press operations for the U.S. Department of Defense] confirmed Thursday that more than 500 journalists will be embedded with troops involved in the expected invasion of Iraq.
Those journalists, by the way, will not be required to have completed the Pentagon-run “boot camps.”
