War Coverage and Censorship

In response to “Live From Baghdad: Let CNN Roll,” by Marvin Kalb, Commentary, Feb. 1:

Amazing! Kalb writes as if he never heard of propaganda and its wartime uses. He confuses the self-interest of his own journalistic trade with the interest of his country. The First Amendment may give Peter Arnett and CNN the legal right to act as a conduit for Iraqi propaganda, but that hardly requires the rest of us to admire their disregard of Sir Thomas More’s observation that there is a great deal of difference between what can be done and what should be done.

GIDEON KANNER

Los Angeles