Globeandmail.com held an online discussion this afternoon about the process of embedding journalists. Participating were Geoffrey York, who just finished a month-long stint there; Graeme Smith, who is in Kandahar right now, and Christie Blatchford, who has been there.

You can see it here.

I sent in a question that went something like this:

Hi from one of your corporate cousins at CTV.ca News. When I was a newspaper beat reporter back in the day, while I could cover the "news" almost immediately, it would take me a year to start writing about a new subject area authoritatively (which could say something about me. :)  ). However, it seems most Canadian journalists are in Afghanistan for about a month. Would it help the quality of coverage if journalists had longer rotations there? Or does the inherent stress of working in a conflict zone make that unworkable?

Alas, it went unanswered. :)