-By Warner Todd Huston
In this video, you’ll see two famous members of the Old Media, Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace, admit that if they were covering a story and were in a position to save the lives of American soldiers, they would not help the soldiers but would instead continue to “cover” the story. They both admitted that they feel they are journalists before they are Americans and that they have a duty first and only to “journalism.”
After that, Marine Colonel George M. Connell expressed his disgust with this concept. He said he had “utter contempt” for these journalists who would turn their backs on American soldiers all the while expecting American soldiers to put their lives in danger to protect the journalists.
Here is a full account of the program from which the above clip was culled as penned by James Fallows in Breaking the News, How the Media Undermine American Democracy (New York, 1997)
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VIDEO: Famed Reporters Admit That They are Reporters First, not Americans”
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