How Embedded Reporters Are "Seduced" By The Military: The Stockholm Syndrome

From a Tomogram post entitled Peter Van Buren, Warrior Pundits and War Pornographers.

Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq as a State Department Foreign Service Officer serving as Team Leader for two Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs). Now in Washington, he writes about Iraq and the Middle East at his blog, We Meant Well.

Here's an excerpt from the Tomogram post:

Ever since defeat in Vietnam, the military had, after all, been working overtime experimenting with ways to rein in and control reporters and coverage of its wars. Their ultimate solution in the field was the “embedding” process, including pre-war “boot camps” for journalists. By turning reporters into embeds and so creating their own version of Stockholm syndrome, military officials expected to ensure the kind of coverage they felt they deserved.