kosan. the south kosanese have informed us that the north kosanese are building a base. the base has facilities to manufacture weapons, supplies, and other materials. it's a communications network. now, i want you to strike that target. sounds like a good one. just bomb the whole thing? what the hell? let's go after the whole enchilada. all those people can inflict damage on us in one case or another. they are the enemy. we even got some icing on your cake this time because in this instance there's an extra benefit from bombing this air base. major madness is the leader of the north kosanese, and he's a cult figure for the guerrillas. our intelligence tells us that major madness every day gives an inspirational speech broadcast throughout north kosan from that base at 12:00, and he's there every afternoon. he's never there in the morning. now, you have a choice to make. you have the option of deciding whether to strike that base at 9 a.m. or 3 p.m. wihtout violating any confidences here, i'd probably have a way to get to him if i know he's that predictable a person. i'm

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.