A lot of readers wrote in with takes on this post, which I wrote after speaking to a group of Marines as part of a media panel. MB reader William D. conveyed the sentiments of a lot of readers with this letter:

I enjoyed your comments yesterday about the panel you were on speaking to the group of Marines. I was going to file it into my mental log of “the general media just doesn’t get it”. But on the drive to work this morning it popped into my mind again. I kept thinking about the lines you wrote:The CBS News producer agreed, but he and an NBC producer also argued, using an old standby, that it’s not news if a plane lands at Kennedy airport safely