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>>>We saw a whole 1 hr docu on this, where an English reporter, Louis Theroux, spent several days with them - in-bedded.
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>>'In-bedded'? Blimey, glad I missed that one! <g>
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>A new reporter-speak expression that was engendered by the Gulf War II. Many reporters rode shotgun with the troops, ate, slept and soiled with them, and were thus "in bed" with them and a lot of folk naturally interpreted the expression as "embedded".

I think the opposite is true.
I've only ever seen the word 'embedded' used in the journalistic context.
I found a couple of instances of the use of 'in-bedded' - both times used in a joke-y,uncomplimentary way to describe embedded journalists whose reporting was considered too pro-military.....
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