To: MindBender26
The questioner, Charlie Ogletree, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School .. said to Mr. Jennings, "Peter, what do you do?" Peter thought for a full 10 or 15 seconds and then said, "Well, I'd probably lose my life for doing it, but I would call, I would shout, and I would warn my American countrymen what was about to happen to them, that they were about to walk into an ambush."
Am I missing something? Jennings says he would warn the troops. Only Wallace says he wouldn't (whithin the confines of the excerpt). But the title says that BOTH Wallace and Jennings would help an enemy kill US soldiers to get a story.
If I misread this, somebody please clue me in. It looks to me as though Wallace is the only traitor.
25 posted on
10/03/2004 2:54:40 PM PDT by
DustyMoment
(Repeal CFR NOW!!)
To: DustyMoment
Read further. Jennings reconsiders and says he agrees with the others after they state their opinions.
To: DustyMoment
Jennings really is a coward..
"I'm a little bit at a loss to understand why, because you're an American, you would not have covered that story." Ogletree pushed Wallace. Didn't Jennings have some higher duty, either patriotic or human, to do something other than just roll film as soldiers from his own country were being shot? "No," Wallace said flatly and immediately. "You don't have a higher duty. No. No. You're a reporter!" Jennings backtracked fast. Wallace was right, he said. "I chickened out." Jennings said that he had gotten so wrapped up in the hypothetical questions that he had lost sight of his journalistic duty to remain detached. As Jennings said he agreed with Wallace, everyone else in the room seemed to regard the two of them with horror.
43 posted on
10/03/2004 6:59:33 PM PDT by
Wolverine
(A Concerned Citizen)
To: DustyMoment
Jenninhs CHANGED his mind after Mike Wallace said he was a Journalist FIRST....so then Jennigs said Oh Yeah.
47 posted on
10/03/2004 8:43:00 PM PDT by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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