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Premiered: July 6, 2004 at 10PM | Check for Rebroadcasts

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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
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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.)

 

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Has mainstream media coverage given you a full picture of the war in Iraq? What angles would you like to see covered more?

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