Better to erase the footage than to erase journalists.
I'm not shure I agree totally with that statement. They are after all the ENEMEDIA!
Speaking as a former Vietnam journalist, I know for a fact that some of our guys wanted to wipe out CBS tv reporters for lying and betraying them. Names like Dan Rather, Don Webster and Morley Safer were mentioned as those the troops hated the most, and this came from other national newspaper correspondents I used to have lunch with in So. Vietnam and Cambodia.
The enemy within - CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Reuters and some AP people. Nothing like thinning the herd to ensure that a better crop of journalists come out of journalist cesspool schools such as Columbia and Missouri, and NWestern.
Are you SURE? One less journalist = one less enemy publicist.
Better to erase the footage than to erase journalists."
There are times when I want both to happen..
This kind of action on the part of journalists would never happen if we were operating under WWII mentality.