Bye-bye, Free Press

[rolanni]

I shoulda gone to the ocean today, gas prices be damned.

From the Sunday New York Times:

In Leak Cases, New Pressure on Journalists
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: April 30, 2006

Earlier administrations have fired and prosecuted government officials who provided classified information to the press. They have also tried to force reporters to identify their sources.

But the Bush administration is exploring a more radical measure to protect information it says is vital to national security: the criminal prosecution of reporters under the espionage laws.

Here's the rest of the story.




Comments

[anghara.livejournal.com]

Particularly apt tag, alas...

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

And, of course, "information vital to the national security" is whatever the government says it is.

Slippery slope to hell.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Provided the world doesn't completely fall apart, the future, even just 20 years from now, will look at the beginning of the 21st Century and ask:

"What the Hell were people thinking?"

My answer will be: "Not much."