British defence ministry bans news broadcaster from embedded reporting

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LONDON (AFP) — The British defence ministry has temporarily banned television news broadcaster ITV from embedding their journalists with British troops, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP. His comments were in response to a report in The Times newspaper saying that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had halted cooperation in war zones with ITV, Britain's biggest commercial news broadcaster, after accusing it of inaccurate and intrusive reports about wounded soldiers.

Declaring The Times report to be inaccurate, the spokesman said that the MoD was "disappointed by inaccuracies in the ITN (which provides ITV News) report last week, and we are writing to them to seek explanation." But he acknowledged that ITV had been banned from embedding their journalists with British troop...

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