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Shorenstein Center's
Marvin Kalb says of CNN medical correspondent
Dr. Sanjay Gupta's decision to
perform emergency surgery on an injured Iraqi child: ''Journalists are there to cover the news and shouldn't get involved in the story, but I think in this case, Gupta was right.''
Tom Rosenstiel adds: ''You don't leave your humanity behind when you put a press pass around your neck.'' But Poynter's
Bob Steele says: ''I think it's problematic if this is a role that he's going to be playing on any kind of frequent basis."
