"Reporters will be embedded [3] with the government during natural disasters, according to a plan outlined by Homeland Security [4] Secretary Michael Chertoff [5] at the Radio-Television News Directors Association convention [6]," writes John Eggerton. Chertoff assured the audience, "We're not going to be censoring information," since the program wouldn't involve battleground situations. Eggerton notes that during the crisis around Hurricane Katrina [7], "reporters seemed to know more about what was happening on the ground than the administration did." So, the new embed program might benefit government officials more than reporters -- or affected communities.