The Nation - News from May 29, 1985
President Reagan and other leaders must help assure that the news media are allowed to cover combat zones without undue restrictions, a group of journalists, scholars and military men said. But, in a report released in New York called “Battle Lines,” the Twentieth Century Fund’s Task Force on the Military and the Media cautioned that a “cultural divide” has exacerbated tensions between soldiers and reporters and that both sides must work together to improve relations.
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