But David Westin, the president of ABC News, said it was important for his journalists to maintain their neutrality in times of war.
The statement stopped short of naming the parties responsible, an approach often taken by agencies to maintain their neutrality and avoid further restrictions.
"The chair and vice chair are required to maintain their neutrality in primaries," Ms. Campbell said in a statement on Monday.
At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Dutch sedulously maintained their neutrality, although their sympathies lay overwhelmingly with the Allied powers.
Since 1957, the Israelis had said that such a blockade would be considered a casus belli, but when Israeli diplomats appealed to the United States and Great Britain for help both maintained their neutrality.
There, too, relief agencies discovered that a red cross or a red crescent sometimes wasn't enough to maintain their neutrality in the eyes of the people the United States was bombing.
Mr. Brown is more serious than usual when he invokes Dante's dire warning: "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis".
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality".
Despite the efforts of Peter Schuyler, the Albany commissioner of Indians, to interest them in the war, the Iroquois maintained their neutrality throughout the conflict.
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality," Reid quoted.
To drag Dante into it, "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality".
