Reporting Live From the Holy Grail: Embedded

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When Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Leeson first heard the term embedded, he figured it meant a one-way ticket to nowhere. "I thought, 'When something is embedded, that means it's stuck,'" Leeson said with a laugh. "That was my attitude about it."

Still, Leeson agreed to become one of hundreds of embedded journalists during the war in Iraq, as did Cheryl Diaz Meyer, one of his colleagues at The Dallas Morning News, and two photojournalists from the Rocky Mountain News, M.E. Sprengelmeyer and Todd Heisler. Though embedded seemed to originate as a term during this conflict, pool journalists in past conflicts generally did accept assignments from the Pentagon to live and travel with and cover one particular military unit. (See story on Page 32.)

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Reporting Live From the Holy Grail: Embedded

All four of these journalists have heard of Tim Robbins' play Embedded (opening this week at the Armory for the Arts as a presentation of Santa Fe Stages), though none of them have seen it. While the satirical theater piece suggests that journalists can be compromised by being embedded, this quartet of reporters said they were only restrained when it came to photographing prisoners of w...

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