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Follow the debate over embedded vs. independent coverage
Read reports filed by journalists on this junket
View more of Stephanie Sinclair's photography
Share your thoughts about this film with others
Follow the debate over embedded vs. independent coverage.
Further Reading: Is the Media Doing a Good Job of Covering the Iraq
War?
The debate about embedded reporters vs. unilateral coverage and the media's general
handling of the Iraq War is a popular topic online. Below you can find links
to video symposiums about war coverage, interviews with war correspondents like
Pulitzer prize winning photographer, Anthony Shadid, and other features that
help
to put the current war coverage in perspective.
Interview: Covering the War in Iraq from all
the
Angles
Los Angeles Times Foreign Editor Marjorie Miller talks about the
challenges of covering a war half a world away.
Read reports filed by journalists on this junket.
The Backside of War
P.J. O'Rourke files a story with the Atlantic Monthly about the food distribution
he
witnessed
at
Safwan
on March 28, 2003. It originally appeared in their December 2003 issue.
Aid Shipment Creates Chaos
Here's the same incident filed by videographer Travis Fox
on
the
Washington Post website. The Post also has a wonderful feature called Mapping
the
War
Day
by Day. The
chaos at Safwan is covered in their report for March 28th. You'll
see
the
food distribution incident if you scroll down the day's events. Safwan is located
in
the
lower
right-hand
corner
of Iraq, on the coast of Umm Qsar. (video)
Food
Riot in Safwan
LA Times journalist Sam Verhovek reports from the food distribution site in Safwan.
(video)
Resentment,
Relief and Resistance
Al Jazeerah/Arab News reporter Essam Al-Ghalib files a report from Umm Qsar on
the food situation.
Kuwaiti
Food Trucks Ransacked
New York City's Daily News reporter Robert Ingrassia talks about
the "ransacking" of food donation trucks in Safwan.
View more of Stephanie Sinclair's photography.
Stephanie
Sinclair
Sinclair remained in Iraq covering the occupation. She maintains a
journal
and
occasionally uploads photos.
Interview: Stephanie Sinclair
We caught up with Sinclair by email in May 2004.
Corbis.com
Sinclair now works for Corbis as an assignment photographer. You can access her
work at Corbis's site. (Please note: Some of these images are
graphic depictions of patients in a hospital in Iraq and may not be appropriate
for
children.)
Time.com:
Lessons
From the Rubble
Stephanie Sinclair's photoessay on Time magazine's website on the devastating
attack on U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.
photo betty
Stephanie Sinclair's site for women in photography. (It hasn't been updated in a while.)
Share your thoughts about this film with others.
Visit our Discussion
Board
Has mainstream media coverage given you a full picture of the war in Iraq? What
angles would you like to see covered more?
P.O.V.'s Tapestry
The Talking Back Tapestry is a colorful, interactive representation of your feelings
about "War Feels Like War."


