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The link is to a Columbia University debate where Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace argue that their duty is to cover the news at the risk of the American troops they're embedded with.Watch to the very end where a Marine officer talks about the journalists being in danger but he's expected to rescue them and put his men's lives in danger, but he will do it.This is the crap we've been dealing with since the 1960's.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGg_dpGhlf0

I used to watch a show called "Ethics in America" some time ago where they had 10-15 "experts" in their field in a horseshoe-shaped conference table and discussed issues of the day. One episode which has practical sigificance today was called,"Under Orders, Under Fire," and author/editor James Fallows discussed it in his infamous "Atlantic Monthly" article and heralded book, "Breaking the News". The moderator was Charles Ogletree, a professor at Harvard Law School, who moved from panelist to panelist asking increasingly difficult questions in the law school's famous Socratic style. In the current conflict with Iraq, given the enormous number...