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...righteousness comes with the territory. Journalists are not duty bound to coddle people with the information they want to hear, but to provide them with the information they should hear. "If people don't like it, I'm sorry," snapped Sam Donaldson on ABC's PrimeTime Live, "but they really need to know what's happening." Comments David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Vietnam: "It isn't a popularity contest for us, and we shouldn't seek it to be one. The people of this country wouldn't like it very much afterwards...
...Morton Kondracke recently pointed out, 1988 ABC News exit polls showed Bush ahead 88 percent to 12 percent among voters who regarded foreign policy and defense as their most important criteria (compared to a mere 5 percent margin on economic issues). Bush's thus-far stellar performance in the Gulf Crisis will only perpetuate this imbalance...
...news media have dutifully reported both optimistic and pessimistic assessments over the months but have shown a readier appetite for in-your-face remarks than cautions. That was certainly the experience of retired Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Appearing on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley last August, Crowe predicted, "In a major clash, we'll clean their clocks. If not today, later." He added that both sides would pay a terrible price. His words were quoted (sometimes misquoted) around the world, often with the warning omitted...
...last week got a scoop when four hungry Iraqi army deserters approached them and surrendered. Complaints about the pool reports have been growing. "Why didn't we get the oil spill? Why wasn't a pool on the ((battleship)) Missouri when it fired its guns?" asks Thomas Giusto of ABC, who is coordinating pool coverage for the four U.S. networks. "The pools have not been granted access to things when they are happening...
...they are clearly identified as Iraqi approved. "The alternative," says executive vice president Ed Turner, "is to pack up and leave, and then there is no one there at all." CNN, along with NBC and CBS, also aired footage of American POWs making pro-Iraqi statements, apparently under duress. ABC refused to broadcast the statements, noting that its policy is to avoid using anything said by hostages that "furthers the aims of those holding them...