I saw the PBS show. Here is the rest of the story. I am paraphrasing this, but it is essentially true.
The moderator later asked one of the military officers what he would do if a journalist was caught in a crossfire and the enemy was shooting at him (the reporter). Would he risk the lives of American soldiers to rescue him? Without missing a beat, the officer replied, "Of course not, he's not an American, he's a journalist." After a short pause, he said "Of course we would try to rescue him. We have a different code we live by."
A few of the journalist on the panel, to their credit, looked humiliated.
"Would he risk the lives of American soldiers to rescue him? Without missing a beat, the officer replied, "Of course not, he's not an American, he's a journalist."
LOL!
Payback's a b***h, MSM.
Here's the transcript:
"Moderator: Colonel Connell, I can see the venomous reaction you are having in hearing all this.
Colonel Connell [USMC]: (Angrily) I feel utter contempt. Two days later they (the reporters – Jennings and Wallace) are both walking off my hilltop and they get ambushed and they’re lying there wounded. And they’re going to expect I’m going to send Marines up there to get them. They’re just journalists. They’re not Americans. Is that a fair reaction? You can’t have it both ways. But I’ll do it. And that’s what makes me so contemptuous of them. Marines will die going to get…(grippingly) a couple of journalists."
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE02/Cassella02.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/876131/posts