“Often the best reports were those that were carefully written and edited. Some were essentially radio reporting on TV. Technology made some reports stand out but got in the way when it was used for its own sake. Too often the rush to get information on air live created confusion, errors and even led journalists to play the game of ‘Telephone,’ in which partial accounts become distorted and exaggerated in the retelling.”

—Embedded Reporters: What Are Americans Getting?Project for Excellence in Journalism)

Interesting… title of this study suggests either that Americans are the primary audience for the embedded reporters, or that the authors of the study did not choose to study other audiences. Why?