The plus is as a member of the Association, he will get information that perhaps another reporter will not get. Former broadcaster Marvin Kalb, executive director of the Shorenstein Center in Washington, disagrees with Brian Duffy about Joseph Galloway. The very fact that he is a member raises a question of a conflict of interest, and since the question is raised, it almost answers itself. He should not have been the one to do the story. Beyond that, Kalb questions whether journalism is the appropriate medium to examine historical questions like No Gun Ri.
Journalists are best at covering the news.
That requires a special kind of skill, which they really don't have. The AP's Jonathan Wolman and Martha Mendoza disagree. It teaches us a lot about a war, and within journalism, it teaches us a little about war coverage. And for the United States, which projects power across the globe, I think these are lessons we want to learn, and we want to fold these lessons into our preparations for the future. I think that people who read newspapers buy those newspapers because they are basically hiring us to tell them the truth.