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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (39320)	8/21/2002 7:34:13 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "Cameramen were allowed to go into battle with the grunts in Vietname, Carl." Every major war this country's ever been in, since the camera was invented, has been well documented. The minor wars have generally not. This is not the result of recent pentagon policy. It's just a matter of the numbers. In fact, Afghanistan is hardly an example of the press being excluded. It's impossible to bring the press along on a lot of special forces operations. This is as true now as it was true in Vietnam. If, for example, you were setting up a sniper position deep in the jungle, CBS just couldn't (and didn't) go along. And in Afghanistan, where the US went in with large forces (similar to Vietnam) the press accompanied them. I'd be willing to bet that the ratio of footage shot to bullets fired in Afghanistan was way, way, way over the ratio in Vietnam. It's a matter of proportionality. -- Carl