Freeance of the Press

As if it wasn't hard enough to get news reports out of Iraq, now the U.S. is going all launching "Operation FoxNews":

The military has started censoring many [embedded reporting] arrangements. Before a journalist is allowed to go on an embed now, [the military] check[s] the work you have done previously. They want to know your slant on a story — they use the word slant — what you intend to write, and what you have written from embed trips before. If they don't like what you have done before, they refuse to take you. There are cases where individual reporters have been blacklisted because the military wasn’t happy with the work they had done on embed.

That's from Rod Nordland, Newsweek's former Baghdad bureau chief.

Tell us about the painted schools motherfuckers!