, south kosan, and the ally. i'm a little bit at a loss to understand why because you're an american you would not have covered that story. when we go back to vietnam, there were all kinds of reporters who did indeed go in to hanoi. everybody wanted to go there. why would a reporter say, "i won't cover that because i'm unhappy at what's happening there"? don't you have a higher duty as an american citizen to do all that you can to save the lives of soldiers rather than this journalistic ethic of reporting the fact? no, you don't have the higher duty to-- no, no. you're a reporter. your job is to cover what is going on in that war. people know that americans are getting killed in that war. lord knows it's a hypothetical. i'd get on the horn with peter and say, "what do you mean--" i think he's right. i chickened out. i played the hypothetical hard, but i think he's right. they've got the same problems that downs has. what's the problem, general scowcroft? the problem is the job as opposed to a higher cause. first

but you're a reporter covering combat between north kosan, south kosan, and the ally. and i'm a little bit at a loss to understand why, because you're an american, you would not have covered that story. i feel utter contempt. two days later, they're both walking off my hilltop. they're 200 yards away, and they get ambushed, and they're lying there wounded, and they're going to expect me to send marines to get them. they're just journalists. they're not americans. captioning made possible by the annenberg/cpb project captioning performed by the national captioning institute, inc. captions copyright 1989 the trustees of columbia university in the city of new york this has been a production of... in association with... columbia university seminars on media & society is solely responsible for the content of this program. annenberg media ♪ the good-listening employee benefits company. for information about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner.org.