Mike Wallace Admits He Would Sell Out American Troops to Maintain Journalistic Integrity

On the PBS series Ethics in America on March 7, 1989, Harvard professor Charles Ogletree led the nation’s leading journalists into a chilling discovery. In a future war involving U.S. soldiers, what would a TV reporter do if he learned the enemy troops with which he was traveling were about to launch a surprise attack on an American unit? ABC anchor Peter Jennings and CBS correspondent Mike Wallace agreed: getting ambush footage came first.