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How many journalists is the U.S. holding?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) The United States military learned much from the negative Vietnam War news coverage, to make more effective efforts at making people think subsequent wars are more like detached Space Invaders games than the bloody scenes of carnage they really are.  Where will the U.S. government stop at trying to whitewash news coverage of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? (In her 2004 book Exception to the Rulers, Amy Goodman covers such whitewashing, and the complicity of too many journalists and news organizations in the whitewashing.) The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that the U.S. military has held CTV journalist Jawed Ahmad (also known as Jojo Yazemi) in detention in Afghanistan since October 2007, without charge or trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).