Media face pressures in covering breaking news .
Colo. It also made it easy to forget that the job of journalists is to be accurate and balanced when covering stories, while minimizing potential harm to those involved in the story. Wireless tools now used by almost 70 million Americans have made it easier to call in a story, or to reach people where news is happening. Smaller cameras have made it almost impossible for major stories to be without videos. But those tools, and our other technologies, must be used with care and good judgment. Newsrooms, both broadcast and increasingly print, must exercise considerable caution during live coverage, or Internet coverage, of fast-moving events, such as hostage situations.