Douglas Brinkley says Williams should have heeded Cronkite 's golden rule for war reporters : never self-aggrandize . It is a fact that Cronkite knew all too well : sometimes a little tuliping in a war zone goes farther than a tale of looking down the tube of an RPG . The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon had been warned about a possible attack on U.S. forces in Iraq by an Iraqi intelligence officer.
Douglas Brinkley says Williams should have heeded Cronkite 's golden rule for war reporters : never self-aggrandize . The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon had been warned about a possible attack on U.S. forces in Iraq by an Iraqi intelligence officer.