'Route Irish Times'

international | arts and media | other press Tuesday June 17, 2008 11:21 by David Manning & Miriam Cotton - MediaBite

Interview with Lara Marlowe, war reporter

A two-part interview with concluding analysis of how even journalists who make a big effort to write independently can subconsciously adopt the dominant framing of the mainstream media.

Lara Marlowe talks about Iraq, Iran, media coverage and other matters.

On embedded journalists:

" The only embedded journalists I came across were in the accreditation service inside the Green Zone. There was a Newsweek journalist I met on the way home who said he had travelled embedded. But I probably wouldn't encounter journalists who are fully embedded, as they are usually flown into Kuwait and helicoptered directly into the Green Zone. They are hermetically sealed in; they are transferred in and out of the green zone in a 'Rhino', which is a large armoured bus, or they are helicoptered to a unit and they then spend their whole stay within the unit. The unit I went with that day were stationed in Baghdad. I had to go into the Green Zone to meet them, put on my flak jacket and helmet, as required by US regulations, and then drive out with them. They took me back to the Green Zone at the end of the day."

Full interview:
http://www.mediabite.org/article_Route-Irish-Times---Pa....html