This is a very accurate indictment of corporate news as it is produced in print and broadcast today. No real questions, jingoism and ethnocentrism. My Intro to Mass Media students heard from embedded and independent journalists and though news neophytes, they could discern how embedding would result in bias and could cause important stories to be missed by accident, or because the press' handlers would keep them away from stories. This is shameful, and this J teacher is going to develop a lesson plan to help students come up with ways of avoiding becoming puppets of corporations as they work for mass media outlets today which are increasingly owned and operated by and for corporations, not for real news. The perfect storm? The American media and Iraq Lance Bennett - openDemocracy