U.S. forces stormed into the western outskirts of Fallujah early Monday, seizing the main city hospital and securing two key bridges over the Euphrates river in what appeared to be the first stage of the long-expected assault on the insurgent stronghold.
My oldest son has been fascinated by Marines for as long as I can remember. His idea of a fashion statement is the formal dress blues of the US Marine Corp. For days he has waited patiently for the assault on Fallujah to begin. Apparently, he got up out of bed regularly all night to check and see if CNN was running any footage of the US Marines in action in Fallujah. He got up this morning demanding to know where are the embedded camera men/reporters? If anyone has any suggestions please post.
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Don't know what may or mayn't have happened to them, but this is what the Marines had to say...
Clearly when there is a strict filter on what the embeds can say, we should understand that "No news is bad news".
The people who filled the void with the Private Lynch story and other works of fiction have returned to Hollywood, which is why there is now no more news that's fit to print.
I should have made clear that Montana's interest is more in watching the marine's operate rather than in commentary from a reporter. I would not assume that "no news is bad news" - after all this is USMC.
Always hard to tell which station would provide more raw footage... CNN is just now mentioning one of their reporters embedded with forces entering Falluja.
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