Bad News Alert!

CNN Submits 6 Questions After Overture by bin Laden . . . After reading this article in the New York Times, my question to Mr. Walter Isaacson, the Chairman of CNN, would be, "How will you know that, if you do air all, or portions of, any video tape that you may receive, you are not actually playing into bin Laden's hand?" It seems to me that it is unlikely, to the point of impossibility, to believe that bin Laden would do this unless it was his intention to use CNN to further his agenda. And please, Mr. Isaacson, don't give us that, "It is our obligation to report the news." Given the Current Situation, isn't that a rationale that, in and of itself, is no longer acceptable? Shouldn't Mr. Isaacson, and others like him, have an overriding goal which would eclipse even their vaunted "obligation" to report the news, the goal of not doing anything that might help the cause of the enemy?