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Morley Safer, correspondent for CBS News, reporting on the systematic burning of South Vietnamese villages by US Marines in Cam Ne, Vietnam, 1965.

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Morley Safer's coverage of the Vietnam War changed everything
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Bonus: Teaching China's next generation of journalists to question everything

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