that's the message that was a message to them to all those the others in the palestine hotel. the people who died there it was a warning to all of us. when that tank pulled up outside the palestine hotel and fired it was a warning. you will do as we tell you to do as journalists or else. why did journalist become a target. in order to answer this question we need to go back in time. brunel that's our mission we're about to embark on our mission today is to report down to the site of the ambush seventy miles south of here and attempt to kill the b c one two three ball with the powerful but be allowed to cronkite a distinguished t.v. reporter and presenter expresses at the time the official conception regarding the war coverage in vietnam a great way to go to war for the american media the conception that described the war as an exciting adventure gradually changed the vietnam war turned out very bad for america. and after that was it news organizations in a to some degree felt responsible. in a pit so shaded protests you know i want to pulitzer prize for writing stories that att

the crime committed at the hotel palestine will never be forgotten so there must be justice. was it a mistake somebody will forget to give the information a criminal negligence personally i will never forget that day and. the response of should pay for that negligence plus a bad ass. deadly malice in it so. why so much death. so much pain so much and. dad meekly weapons fire at the journalists they need their right to the information and the home of my son didn't die in a car accident. no he wasn't killed in the strata he didn't die from cancer or some other disease but he was murdered. that's why i'm asking and i was keep on asking in front of the american embassy for an impassioned investigation now i'm sorry for those individuals and i'm sorry for the families believe me i have i prayed about it didn't churchly try to hurt no u.s. army did not try to change the or anyone there is ok but that's one of the as we say the casualties of war ok. i wish you would have never happened but it has happened. but there was no battle that means there was no excuse but you. as you have p