Reporter to Future Military Leaders: News Media Is Your Best Friend.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 01 November 2000
• Author: Kennedy, Harold
• Published date: 01 November 2000
• Author: Kennedy, Harold

U.S. armed services need to do a better job of working with the news media to explain themselves to the American public, a senior war correspondent for a major news magazine told students at the Army War College, at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.

Because the college has a policy of protecting the anonymity of speakers at its events, the correspondent--and others who made comments during the college's annual Media Day--could not be identified by name. The Army invited a group of reporters who regularly cover the Pentagon to attend a daylong seminar at the college and discuss relations between the services and the media.

The War College, located just north of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, is the Army's senior educational institution. Established in 1903, it trains selected officers for high command. Its graduates include such legendary Army commanders as John J. Pershing, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar Bradley.

The correspondent, in...