Three years into the Iraq war, Richard Engel was holding down the fort as NBC's Baghdad bureau chief when a top producer in New York, M.L. Flynn, told him there was "tremendous pressure" in the newsroom to lighten up his coverage.
The interview with the man who has vast experience of war reporting in the Washington Post is well worth a read.
Engel has brought out a book on his five years in the Iraqi capital and
Once again there is evidence of manipulation by the American forces of the media
It was all about getting good-news stories out there, There was a collective impression that all the journalists were getting it wrong. It quickly spread to the blogosphere and the world of punditry. It seemed orchestrated."
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