http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/military-issues/the-windbags-of-war/ Journalism ethics cases online Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/military-issues/the-windbags-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-43194 Lane Bourgeois Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:43:29 +0000 http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/military-issues/the-windbags-of-war/#comment-43194 I started reading this article thinking I would be 100 percent opposed to your point of view. But the bottom line is that you are right. The best journalism DOES question, and doesn't take things at face value. That is a valuable lesson to be drawn out of Vietnam. Just be careful that in your rush to provide a counterbalance, your antagonism does not spring from the soil of your own bias. I started reading this article thinking I would be 100 percent opposed to your point of view. But the bottom line is that you are right. The best journalism DOES question, and doesn’t take things at face value. That is a valuable lesson to be drawn out of Vietnam. Just be careful that in your rush to provide a counterbalance, your antagonism does not spring from the soil of your own bias.

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