- Media Watch -- 04/01/1989 -- Page One: Reporters First, Americans ... In a future war involving U.S. soldiers what would a TV reporter do if he learned the enemy troops with which he was traveling were about to launch a surprise attack on an American unit? That's just the question Harvard University professor Charles Ogletree Jr, as moderator of PBS' Ethics in America series, posed to ABC anchor Peter Jennings and 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace. Both agreed getting ambush footage for the evening news would come before warning the U.S. troops.
- Why Americans Hate the Media - 96.02 The episode was taped in the fall of 1987. Its title was "Under Orders, Under Fire," and most of the panelists were former soldiers talking about the ethical dilemmas of their work. 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.
During the first half of the show Ogletree made the soldiers squirm about ethical tangles on the battlefield. The man getting the roughest treatment was Frederick Downs, a writer who as a young Army lieutenant in Vietnam had lost his left arm in a mine explosion.
1 posted on
03/27/2003 2:07:24 PM PST by
Remedy
To: Remedy
BOYCOTT ABC NEWS and ABC
BUT, LISTEN TO WABC RADIO AM 770: Limbaugh, Hannity, Batchelor & Alexander, ....
To: Remedy
So is NBC. I had to go outside the house after the first few minutes of their coverage. Usually I watch to see what they are lying about this day, but I couldn't take it. After being here yesterday and seeing the humanity of our troops I just couldn't stomach them last night.
To: Remedy
No, no, not P-ter! Say it ain't so! *#&@ @(*$& (@*$ )(#*& socialist pig.
To: Remedy
Is anyone else sick of that Canadian High School dropout?
5 posted on
03/27/2003 2:10:38 PM PST by
A. Morgan
To: Remedy
Anti-American Broadcasting Corporation.
6 posted on
03/27/2003 2:11:37 PM PST by
Uncle Miltie
(Wheat is Murder! (Tilling slaughters worms.....))
To: Remedy
E-BOMB ABC!
Al Jazeera's American affiliate
8 posted on
03/27/2003 2:19:05 PM PST by
laz17
(Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
To: Remedy
The Al Jazeera Broadcasting Company presents
The Evening News with Achnod Jennings
10 posted on
03/27/2003 2:22:14 PM PST by
Yankee
To: Remedy
I began to hate Jennings in 1994 after he explained the huge Republican election victories as America "throwing a tantrum".
To: Remedy
There is a FReep of ABC that just started this morning
here! Come on down!
To: Remedy
I saw about 5-10 minutes of ABC last night and it was simply appalling.
Their hand-wringing is simply absurd...
Same for MSNBC and CNN.
They're all as bad as the NY Times...
19 posted on
03/27/2003 2:50:38 PM PST by
sargon
To: Remedy
ABC TV is in third place on the Sunday morning programs.One day they will be in the the trash heap of history with Madman Insane, Ditzy Chumps, Jacque Chirac and his Mini Me/ Chirac Light the Canadian Cretin PM Chretin.
20 posted on
03/27/2003 2:57:19 PM PST by
johnfl61
To: Remedy
I'm waiting for someone to hack their website and repalce it with an American flag...
To: Remedy
Correct me if I'm wrong,but I don't think Jennings ever even bothered to become an American citizen.
The American paycheck is okay,but loyalty;forget it.
25 posted on
03/27/2003 3:18:43 PM PST by
Mears
To: Remedy
In my opinion, Anti-American Broadcasting's Chris Bury is worse than Jennings.
News is the cash cow of network TV. Let's hit ABC news sponsors with our opinions.
31 posted on
03/27/2003 5:20:35 PM PST by
wildbill
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