http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3247267.stm
A report commissioned by the BBC has found that reporters 'embedded' withmilitary units during the war in Iraq gave a sanitised picture of events.Closeness to the units did not make reporters less objective, the study bythe Cardiff School of Journalism says. However, it concludes that British broadcasting culture made it impossible to show the full horror of war...The authors said that embedded reporters actually provided a more balancedaccount than some studio-based journalists, who were sometimes'inadvertently tilted towards certain pro-war assumptions'... However, theteam were concerned that, for 'entirely laudable' reasons, it wasimpossible to show particularly violent or graphic images on Britishtelevision. Journalists were aware of this and fashioned their coverageaccordingly, with the result that people felt they were watching a 'madefor TV' version of war that was sanitised and almost fictional.........
