Reply #16: Showing what the President is doing as the first casulties arrive home is totally legitimate, in my

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opinion. Juxtaposing any of us who who are safe at home against those who are dying in our name is always legitimate journalism, if not downright poetic. This is especially so when the civilian safe at home is the person who ordered the troops into harm's way.

Is it drama? Yes. Is it also unvarnished reality, though? Yes. Does the subject warrant it? Yes, IMO.

Did Poppy's embarrassment over his awkward moment justify throwing the First Amendment into the hopper for two freakin' decades, especially as to something so fundamental to our democracy as war reporting? Hell, NO. Is lifting the ban twenty years overdue? Hell, YES.