Talk to the Newsroom: Television Reporters

NY Times : Bill Carter and Jacques Steinberg, who cover television for The New York Times, are taking questions from readers Oct. 6-10, 2008. Questions may be sent to askthetimes@nytimes.com. 

About the Westmoreland suit over "body counts" in the Vietnam Debacle, has it had a lasting effect on TV news? All this "embedding” and no reports. Of course the third grade is good place to be embedded. My cousin George Murray directed "Huntley and Brinkley" and was an award winning TV producer according to Edwin Newman. His last TV was producing CBS coverage of both parties 1976 conventions, having had a heart attack in Mexico City.