f="http://www.cpj.org/attacks02/attacks02index.html" target="_blank">CPJ's site</a>, and you can buy a hard copy of the report from <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/attacksonthepressin2002.htm" target="_blank">the Brookings Institution</a>.</I></p>


<P>Many reporters find themselves in a dilemma when the press comes under attack. Our pride, our institutional and tribal loyalties, all clamor for a retort. We may be the bearers of bad tidings, but we are not their cause. If the truth is inimi