The Government's Current War with the Free Press

THE GOVERNMENT'S CURRENT WAR WITH THE FREE PRESS
[SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor, AUTHOR: Daniel Schorr, NPR]
[Commentary] The Bush Administration has discovered what governments have discovered before, that an undercurrent of hostility toward the news media runs through the country and that there could be political advantage in campaigning against the press in general. You would not expect that I, as a journalist, would exhibit total neutrality in such a war. And so let me quote Justice Potter Stewart in his opinion in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971: "In the absence of governmental checks and balances present in other areas of our national life, the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the area of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry.... Without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people." That remains true, even when Mr. Bush proclaims a state of war with the terrorists.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0707/p09s01-cods.html

* Bush vs. New York Times
[Commentary] Attacks on the New York Times aren't about national security, they're about muting criticism.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/38251/