What is the pros and cons of journalists "embedded" with coalition troops?

In my opinion embedded journalists have the opportunity to get to know the troops they are reporting on and understand what they are doing. This makes there reports a good deal more knowledgeable and, with that knowledge, usually less slanted to the biased anti-military hatchet job the so-called independent reporters usually file. Independent reporters tend to be hotdogs who breeze onto the scene, make snap judgments about what is going on with little or no knowledge about the circumstance, and file reports full of sensational conclusions that—more often than not—cast the American (or UN) troops in a bad light as being trigger happy. That was the big problem in the Vietnam War. The reporters cast themselves in an adversarial roll, and were ready to believe and report on any negative rumor they heard. In other words, I mostly don’t see an upside to the independent hotdog out looking to make a name for him or herself (like pulling stunts of giving positive interviews to the enemy).