“No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.”

— Noam Chomsky

Source: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

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