Stars and Stripes: US to screen journalists for ‘positive coverage’ before embedding
August 28th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Journalism
Story from the beginning of this week – the US government is using a PR firm to run background checks on journalists sent on embedded assignments with the US military.
“Rendon examines individual reporters’ recent work and determines whether the coverage was ‘positive’, ‘negative’ or ‘neutral’ compared to mission objectives, according to Rendon officials. It conducts similar analysis of general reporting trends about the war for the military and has been contracted for such work since 2005, according to the company,” reports Stars and Stripes.
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