An update: Newspaper Regrets Putting Soldier Up To Ask Reporters Question.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/20...-reporter_x.htm
An interesting debate:
"I have some concerns when it looks as if a reporter is responsible for something that happened," said Aly Colón, who teaches about ethics at the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists. "It creates a credibility gap where the reader may not be sure if ... that's what the soldiers really felt."
But in Friday's editorial, Griscom said Pitts "used the tools available to him as a journalist to report on a story that has been and remains important to members of the 278th and those back at home."
"You absolutely have to spell that out," said Rem Rieder, editor of the American Journalism Review. "Not doing so gives a really misleading picture of how this took place."
I still am not seeing the big deal here. Personally.
Cowperson