"Anyone who has been in a vehicle hit by an IED has that moment forever burned deep into their soul, into the fiber of their being," said Michael Ware, the former CNN foreign correspondent who dealt with PTSD
from his time spent reporting in Iraq. "I can only imagine being in a chopper hit by ground fire, fearing it will plummet to earth, is far, far worse -- unmistakable to remember and beyond impossible to conflate. Surely?"
"It would be hard not to step down, in good conscience, after such a painful misstep," Ware added.
Carlotta Gall, the North Africa correspondent for the New York Times, told CNNMoney that print journalists are "probably the greatest sticklers" when it comes to the Williams scandal.
"This is the problem of TV anchor stardom," Gall said. "That's what warps journalism, really, and takes it into show biz. That's when the mistakes and the embroidery come. Any trained journalist knows we're not the story."
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