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The clip below is from an Oct 10, 2001 MRC special section on terrorism: Contrast Hoyt’s attitude to the one expressed by CBS’s Mike Wallace and ABC’s Peter Jennings during a 1989 forum on PBS. The two network stars agreed that if they were traveling with enemy troops and learned of an ambush planned to kill U.S. soldiers they would not provide any warning. A reprint from the April 1989 MediaWatch, a monthly newsletter then-published by the MRC: Peter Jennings and Mike Wallace Agree Reporters First, Americans Second In a future war involving U.S. soldiers what would a TV reporter...

Goood Morning, Baghdad! - The Saddam Show by Tom Holsinger September 20, 2002 American electronics wizards, both military and in Hollywood special effects, might win our pending war against Iraq without our having to fire a shot. Plans exist to knock out Iraqi television transmitters and replace their networks with our own, broadcast from special aircraft. Publicly known plans of our proposed replacement programming would be greatly improved by bringing Adrian Cronauer back, but greater opportunities exist. British psychological warfare in World War Two broadcast fake German (sometimes fake fake German) radio shows, and sometimes took over real ones. Sefton...