Gina Cavallaro, who's traveled to Iraq [3] four times to report for the Army Times, has mixed feelings about embedding journalists [4]. "The media is afraid ... and rightly so," she said. "They're relying more on the military to get them where they want to go, and as a result, the military is getting smarter about getting its own story told." But, she added, "I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing." Iraq War veteran Paul Rickhoff, who started Operation Truth [5] "to tell the public the truth of the war from a soldier's perspective," feels that "embedding reporters actually limits the stories they can tell." If reporters don't "play along," he said [6], "next time they'll deny you access."