The Press: Short Takes

> Several million TV viewers watched CBS's 60 Minutes cast doubt on Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert's charge that the Army had stripped him of his command in Viet Nam because he reported U.S. atrocities to his superior officers (TIME, Feb. 12). But precious few newspaper readers saw any mention of the CBS investigative coup the next day. Neither the Associated Press nor United Press International carried the story—a strange omission, considering the wide coverage given to Herbert's antimilitary statements. The A.P. says that the story did not justify the space a full background explanation would have taken. The U.P.I, editors could...