Press, Terrorism and Bias

Instapundit notes Defense Tech Pam and Hess:

As the UPI's Pam Hess noted a while back, the press seems relatively unconcerned about being manipulated by the insurgency, but deeply afraid of anything that might slant its reporting in favor of the U.S. military; this is just another illustration of that phenomenon. But terrorism is, of course, information war disguised as military action, and manipulating the press is what the terrorists are all about. If the press were more resistant to such tactics, the terrorists would be less effective -- and, ironically, the press would be a less appealing target.

The press won't embed with the military for fear of being perceived as biased, yet they are lead around by the nose by the terrorists. They can't see this bias.