Reporter Embeds Are Bad for Candidates, Bad for Reporters, and Bad for America

Not only do the campaigns hate when legitimate news operations forego sending actual on-air talent to cover them and instead send "embeds" – reporters armed with video cameras and a YouTube account – but they hate fake news reporters even more.

Exhibit A: The Daily Show's Rob Riggle, who tags along on Barack OBama's campaign trial, managing to piss off various NBC News and Newsweekcorrespondents, and everyone else on the bus.

May 28, 2008 · Link · Respond
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