"Obama’s war on journalism" BY DAVID SIROTA

[deurbano]

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/obamas_war_on_journalism/

<<--Perhaps most troubling? The president is being aided by a cadre of Benedict Arnolds within the media itself

Out of all the harrowing story lines in journalist Jeremy Scahill’s new film “Dirty Wars,” the one about Abdulelah Haider Shaye best spotlights the U.S. government’s new assault against press freedom.

Shaye is the Yemeni journalist who in 2009 exposed his government’s coverup of a U.S. missile strike that, according to McClatchy’s newswire, ended up killing “dozens of civilians, including 14 women and 21 children.” McClatchy notes that for the supposed crime of committing journalism, Shaye was sentenced to five years in prison following a trial that “was widely condemned as a sham” by watchdog groups and experts who noted that the prosecution did not “offer any substantive evidence to support (its) charges.”

What, you might ask, does this have to do with the American government’s attitude toward press freedom? That’s where Scahill’s movie comes in. As the film shows, when international pressure moved the Yemeni government to finally consider pardoning Shaye, President Obama personally intervened, using a phone call with Yemen’s leader to halt the journalist’s release….>>

[WillyT]

1. K & R !!!

[cantbeserious]

2. So Much For Transparent Hope And Change

eom

[leftstreet]

3. '...such a vacuum allows the official story to become the only story'

Yep

DURec

[railsback]

4. FOX 'News' Headquarters is now surrounded

4 thousand National Guardsman have sealed off the area and are preparing for demolition.