The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.