ABSTRACT
During more than a century of existence, journalism education in the United States has been defined in numerous ways, shaped and reshaped to suit numerous purposes. In the beginning, it was a discrete field of study designed to improve the quality of journalism. Recently, it has been a confusing field. In some universities, journalism education, like hundreds of journalists during the war against Iraq, is embedded. It is embedded with public relations, advertising and assorted other disciplines that together are considered a generic form of communication. Like the embedded journalists, embedded journalism education at times is uncertain about its priorities.
