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Over a picture of me interviewing General William Westmoreland, you write, "Fairness can be sacrificed when reporters go into a story with a preconceived thesis." Yes, it can. But fairness will not be sacrificed if that thesis is tested. And we did test it. When CBS News went into research for The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception, we talked with over 100 different sources. Many of them substantiated the charges of "cooking the books" by Military Assistance Command intelligence officers in Viet Nam during 1967 and 1968. Some did not. Both sides of that research were taken into account...
...mistrust has been heightened by several celebrated libel suits, particularly by General William Westmoreland and Los Angeles Physician Carl Galloway against CBS and by Mobil Corp. President William Tavoulareas against the Washington Post. Each raised worrisome doubts about the objectivity of prominent journalists, and called into question the techniques used to shape a story...
...distorting effect of the confrontational style was also evident in a 1982 CBS documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, which alleged that General William Westmoreland, when commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, was part of a "conspiracy" to mislead the public and perhaps President Johnson about the strength of enemy forces. Correspondent Mike Wallace, the most feared questioner on 60 Minutes, challenged Westmoreland on events more than 15 years old and reduced the general to flustered confusion. But after an internal investigation, CBS concluded that the charge of conspiracy was "inappropriate," material supportive of Westmoreland...
...Pulitzer Prize), sided with junior combat officers who were convinced that Saigon headquarters was too optimistic in its reports to Washington. In Halberstam's phrase, these correspondents became "the other enemy" to Saigon's brass. This animosity lingers. It will surface again when General William Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against CBS comes to trial...
...Japanese, meanwhile, have virtually pushed low-priced European imports out of the U.S. market. Italy's Fiat stopped selling here earlier this year, and Renault will no longer offer its Le Car in America. Although Volkswagen still makes Rabbits at its plant in Westmoreland, Pa., it imports only pricier models like the Jetta, Sirocco and Quantum...