Jennings & Wallace, reporters first, Americans second

Jennings wasn't an American to begin with he only worked in America. Wallace suffered from Bi-Polar episodes and has never been a mentally stable person so you've got to expect an irrational answer from an irrational person such as he was.

I think Mike Wallace is full of crap. They should of altered the question and said, what if one of those soldiers was your son? I bet Mr. Wallace may change his mind.

Mike Wallace is typical of the shallow media elite in the United States. They hate the United States and they despise the United States military. Wallace and Jennings are traitors and cowards.

Journalist are not Americans first then Journalists, they are "Human beings" that have the right to relieve themselves from getting involved in "others" battles right or wrong.

Now here is a "real" situation. The American revolution was carried out by folks that by todays standards would be regarded as insurgents or militias. What should be expected of reporters when reporting atrocities committed by the English army. Would you warn the British combat troops? "the dominant" side or stick to fair reporting ?

A journalist's job is to report accurately and without bias. If he fails then he is not a good journalist. Impartiality is essential to good journalism. "Just the facts" - let the reader judge the facts free of propaganda.

Here's a hypothetical. Let's say Mr. Wallace is covering a story on drunken driving. He's on a street corner near a neighborhood bar with small childern playing on the street nearby. He sees an intoxicated driver careening down the street, turning the corner towards the kids. Does he yell out to warn the kids or does he continue to let the cameras roll to cover the story?

Disgusting.

Who is to say that the U.S. soldiers are the innocent little kids and the enemy soldiers are the intoxicated driver? Is the moral decision about this made inevitable for a U.S. citizen? Can you accept that the U.S. might not always be innocent and morally justified in it's wars?

Both military personnel and reporters have it a little bit wrong. The reporters should cover because it is how they serve their country. Trying to become soldiers when they aren't only serves in getting them killed. Their duty to America is in covering the events. It is how they HELP THE TROOPS. They see it as journalistic integrity. No, it's patriotism. The military personnels' mistake is in not seeing that.

The host of the show wanders around like Sidney Poitier in "To Sir with love" and parks his ass on the desk in front of Jennings and Wallace as they try to make their points. It's like he is asking them why they think the homework assignment he gave them is a pile of crap. Look at Wallace's face...he's gonna get detention for being disrespectful...