Some of these people (cut) went to war zones, some of them didn't go.

We have a long-standing policy that the assignments to war zones or other dangerous places are completely voluntary. And that is understood by everyone who works here.

We want to do an appropriate amount of coverage. The story affects everybody at ABC. We have a job to cover the news, and we are the news today.

A lot of it depends on what's in the news that week.

They are journalists of the highest integrity.

It has always been our long-standing policy that these assignments are voluntary and that is understood by all the people who we work with.