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Halberstam, Tillman, Lynch: Truth is the FirstCasualty
By encinoman
How ironic that David Halberstam, who made his bones as a journalist in Vietnam, passed on just the day before injured soldier Jessica Lynch and the family of the late Pat Tillman testified before Congress. The hearing, &;Misleading Information from the Battlefield,&; focuses on the infamous friendly fire death of Army Ranger Specialist Patrick Tillman in Afghanistan and the capture and rescue of Private Lynch in Iraq.
It&;s often said that &;truth is the first casualty in war.&; Halberstam, who won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism at 30, wrote The Making of A Quagmire in 1965 about Vietnam, but the parallels to Iraq are inescapable.
If Halberstam had been given one more day, he would have been watching the video testimony.
This entry was posted on April 25, 2007 at 2:37 am and is filed under Journalism, Politics, Television.
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