I was watching your news program yesterday about the soldier that fired on the "unarmed" man here, and all I can say is shame on you! Shame on every news cast that follows our soldiers around who are dealing with life and death circumstances. It amazes me how any thing that might cause an uproar or get your news channels attention you are running to show all over every TV you can.

I wonder what you would do if you were followed everyday all day with cameras around you. Would everything you do and say be perfect? And that is in just general life. ... Now, imagine what it would be like with people trying to kill you ... still perfect?

I truly believe that America's worst enemy has become our own press. We are so eager to make our President or soldiers look bad. Well, war is ugly. It is a sad fact of life. And everyone of you is making it that much worse. Why don't you show all the things the soldiers are doing right? There are many! Our men and women are risking their lives everyday and should be praised daily on the news ... not judged. I am really disappointed in what our country has become.

Instead of praising our soldiers, we are trying to get more ratings and be anti-government. The government is not the President or all the members we elect .. it is us ... the American people. Every time you focus on the negative and skim over the positive that our soldiers are doing, you only hurt the American people and make our country look bad to the foreign countries. I ask you .. do you see Iraq media following their soldiers around looking for things to report negative about them?

The more I see of the news the more disappointed I am in the US media. You have defiantly let our soldiers and country down.

With much sadness,

Jeanette Hughes
Sandpoint

DFO: Irwin N. Graulich of MichNews.com believes the embedded reporter who filmed the shooting should be shipped back to the USA -- in jails and tried for treason here.

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