‘Embedded Journalism in 21st Century: Torsion and Distortion of War News’

Journalism and Mass Communication

Embedded Journalism became more popular during Iraq and Afghanistan war. Embedded journalism is a practice where journalists travel with the military to cover the war. In embedded journalism journalists covers only one sided story. They build up only one sided prospective and not seeing the both side of coins. Suppose if the journalist is associated with or covering with the country specific army then they must be on the country specific coverage. Journalism is a profession in which ethical coverage of news and views are above all but such type of practices degrades the profession. 21st century decided many benchmark as well many new trends for journalism. But apart from this profession also get infected from many new threats and embedded journalism is the example of such type of infective journalism. This research will bring many aspects of embedded journalism in the new context.

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