Is This True?

From a Foreign Policy interview with Rob Norland, who until recently was Newsweek's  Baghdad bureau chief:

The military has started censoring many [embedded reporting] arrangements. Before a journalist is allowed to go on an embed now, [the military] check[s] the work you have done previously. They want to know your slant on a story—they use the word slant—what you intend to write, and what you have written from embed trips before. If they don’t like what you have done before, they refuse to take you. There are cases where individual reporters have been blacklisted because the military wasn’t happy with the work they had done on embed. But we get out among the Iraqi public a whole lot more than almost any American official, certainly more than military officials do.

I'd be a bit surprised if this is actually de facto policy, but all the more reason I want to know the answer. How about it, Howie?

Comments

[Steve]

I know I've heard this before, maybe around the time Lara Logan blasted Ingraham. But I haven't been able to find the story. It was the same thing, the military would only help reporters who are writing positive stories.