[myprecious]

I helped them in the battle.

There was a round table discussion series on PBS filmed several years ago. Experts from several fields would participate with a "devil's advocate" leading them through a progress of moral, political, and legal situations. One episode included a general and Dan Rather (pretty sure it was him).

The topic turned to the role of media in battle. The situation was proposed that the reporter had discovered that a group of soldiers were heading for an ambush. The question was put to Rather - Would you alert them of the pending doom?

Rather answered without blinking. No. My job is to report the events, not participate. That would be unethical.

[battlegearboat]

Testimony from a Baptism Of Fire.

He's useless to the Boston Globe now.

[Sloth]

Wouldn't surprise me if Dan did say that, though I wonder if you are confusing it w/ a round-table discussion where Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace were asked that... First, Jennings says he would warn the Americans, then Wallace scolds him and says that's not a reporter's job, then Jennings agrees w/ Wallace that he was wrong.

[RonF]

The moderator should then have revised the question:

"O.K., Dan, now let's suppose that you were walking in the middle of the group of soldiers when you looked up and saw the snipers before anyone else did. Now what do you do?"