Journalism, has castigated a Detroit television station for refusing to

comment on a recent scuffle that reportedly broke out between one of its

news crews and a group of young people who objected to the station's

coverage of the war in Afghanistan.

Asked about the incident, Jeff

Murri, manager of Fox-owned WJBK, told Detroit's Metro Times, "We

have no comment, and it's a company policy not to comment until the

investigation is complete."

Carey called such a response "unacceptable,"

telling the newsweekly, "Just to say to another journalistic

organization, 'We're not going to talk about it,' is to violate the

implicit contract that journalists have with readers and viewers. ...How can such an organization expect people to feel under any obligation

to answer their inquiries when they won't answer themselves when charges

are brought against them, in one sense or another? I really don't have

much tolerance for that, at all. And I don't think any of us should."