Day Two, Panel Two: Roy Gutman
The Major Story that Usually Gets Away

"Had I--and I can fault myself on missing a story, but so did everybody else--had any of us done the most basic investigative journalism which is to say you go from side to side. You find out what the story is on the people who are receiving the attack and then you go to the people who are attacking. ... I could have done the story not just about Vinkovci Hospital but about the fact that there was a pattern of attacks on hospitals. And it just struck me that this was the kind of knowledge--and it's kind of the intellectual category that I was not doing in doing my coverage. And I thought that in general reporters haven't been doing this very much because we haven't been covering wars where violations are almost like the essence of the conflict."

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