Of the panelists, Roger Hedgecock was the only non-journalist (self-proclaimed), and probably was the only one who can speak well extemporaneously. The newspaper people were more nervous because they are not on TV. The local TV people all claimed to be journalists, but are really news readers and sometime reporters not focused on political or foreign affairs stories. And then there was Petah.
The oh-so-arrogant Petah Jennings tried hard to control the flow of answers, while giving his familiar spin of "moderation" to his answers. He is so knowledgable about everything from Sikhism to diversity in media. He, of course, claimed to be a journalist in the mold of Edward R. Murrow.
All the TV folks (Petah included) claimed they were just trying to tell the story from all sides. Petah said the reason ABC had the Afghan civilian casualty story was that they had a reporter inside Ashcanistan, so of course they told the story he saw. Roger's attempt to point out that the Taliban was using the reporter was brushed off by Petah.
That's my two cents on an interesting but unfulfilling hour. It beat Jeopardy and Jeff Greenfield for my attention. Then I discovered Newt was on CSPAN testifying about the National ID card. I shoulda watched Newt.