NP? information war

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Thu Jul 25 19:44:36 CDT 2002


http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/3718371.htm
[...] "Requesting journalistic profiles not be done? That one's a new one
and, quite frankly, a very scary one," said Paul McMasters, First Amendment
ombudsman for the Freedom Forum and former national president of the
Society of Professional Journalists."The idea of halting a profile on a
highly visible public figure because of a worry about how it might reveal
sensitive information, carried to its extreme, could bring public
accountability to a halt," McMasters said. "Not to mention the American
public is interested in those who carry out policies." [...]



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