One of the network anchors actually said as a journalist they felt obliged not to warn them.
I *think* it was Peter Jennings.
Peter Jennings was not a “journalist”. He was an America-hater for the Left.
I was a journalist in SVN/Cambodia and we had some really great, honest, and patriotic journalists/reporters there, except for CBS. Nobody I talked to said anything good about Dan Rather, Don Webster or Morley Safer.
In fact, Rather was lucky to have gotten out of there alive as some troops reportedly wanted to kill him as a traitor. MISSED BY THAT MUCH!
Told that Webster abandoned his camera crew when they came under mortar attack and skiddadled back to town.
Safer was accused of using the money blackmarket to exchange American money for Vietnamese piasters and paying his Vietnam staff in P’s but at the official rate of about 270 P per $1.00 US and pocketing the difference of 130P per dollar.
No proof but it came from a guy who would know. Unfortunately he is deceased because he would have loved to nail Safer and Rather.
Now, if his files are ever found, it might be another story.
Two good American women reporters, Phillipa Schuyler (George Schuyler’s daughter) and Maggie Higgins, got killed by landmines. Both honest, brave, and worthy of the title “combat journalist”.
Most American reporters for the newspapers were on our side. However, they didn’t work for the Big 3, the NY Times, Wash. Post and LA Times. (There were good journalists at each of these papers but it was the leftist anti-America crowd that got the space for negative stories).
See Peter Braestrup’s “The Big Story” for much of this story.
The deceased Peter Jennings was Canadian...