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- Sally Bedell & Dan Kower. “Anatomy of a Smear: How CBS News Broke the Rules and ‘Got’ Gen. Westmoreland”, TV Guide, 24 May 1982.
- Burton Benjamin. The CBS Benjamin Report. Washington, D.C.: The Media Institute, 1984.
- Connie Bruck. “The soldier takes the stand”, The American Lawyer (January/February 1985): 113–119.
- Grace Ferrari Levine. “Television Journalism on Trial: Westmoreland v. CBS”, Journal of Mass Media Ethics 5, no. 2 (June 1990): 102–116.
- Walter Schneir & Miriam Schneir. “The Right's Attack on the Press”, The Nation, 30 March 1985.
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