Orville Schell describes the dilemma journalists face when reporting the news in wartime.
“[Reporters] know if they just come up with bad news, they’re going to be pilloried. They know their news outlets will be criticized. Advertisers will abandon,” he says. This, he says, has made journalists more timid, cautious, and incapable of standing up to criticisms. Information is being kept from Americans, resulting in a democratic deficit, he says.