asked by SBS-TV Dateline Executive Producer Peter Charley about the April 30 Media Watch broadcast "Anatomy of an investigation" (which criticized the March 27 SBS Dateline program "Anatomy of a Massacre" ). Holmes and Buckfield, on behalf of Media Watch and ABC-TV, wrote to justify , not to correct or apologize for, their April 30 broadcast. In the process, they engage in absurd word games and contortions to avoid correcting or apologizing for their April 30 story, in a response that's much longer than the original broadcast itself, yet adds little or nothing to our knowledge of what happened in Panjwai on March 11. Astonishingly, though an obvious impetus for the Media Watch criticism of Dateline's report (that is, Jon Stephenson of McClatchy criticizing Yalda Hakim and DatelineSBS on TVNZ's April 26 Media7 program ) was highlighted on April 30 by Media Watch "because for one journalist to attack [and question] another's work publicly is rare [and unusual]," that "attacking" journalist (Stephenson) has now belatedly admitted to Media Watch that he interviewed no "eyewitnesses " to the Panjwai Massacre (emphasis added): "It is correct that I spoke to several villagers (including Mullah Barraan) and other elders but not to eyewitnesses of the attack. I spoke to people who were present in the village but not to people who had been shot at inside the houses or seen the gunman/gunmen ....If I'd spoken to eyewitnesses I would have quoted them as confirming or rejecting the multiple shooter theory." - Jon Stephenson