AP president: US arrests journalist in Iraq to 'control' information

[Demeter]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/AP_President_chides_Bush_Admin_for_0319.html


David Edwards and Muriel Kane



Associated Press president Tom Curley says his news organization does not buy the government's argument that one of its photographers arrested in Iraq was working on behalf of the enemy, and he alleged the US is rounding up journalists in an attempt to control information.

"To say the least, we see things very differently," Curley commented dryly, regarding photographer Bilal Hussein, who was arrested two years ago and remains in military custody.

Noting that at least a dozen other Iraqi photographers have been detained or arrested, Curley stated, "It's impossible not to conclude that the words and pictures these journalists produced were considered unhelpful to the war effort and that their arrests would have served a broader strategy of information control."

Curley also called on journalists to demand that all the presidential candidates make a commitment to reversing a directive issued by Attorney General John Ashcroft shortly after September 11 that radically restricted the scope of the Freedom of Information Act.

[izzie]

1. You are saying that the Govt. is in control of what we see/hear?

Bush and Co., have always seemed to me, thinking that they are the only ones that know what is right for us to see and hear. We do seem to have our own 'Royals' working out of the WH. One wonders how the Am. people can put up with it so long but you still hear people say any thing the President wants is the right way to go. Odd of an Am. to think that way to me.

[tavalon]

2. Think?

People who say that aren't thinking, they're just spouting what they've heard from _________________, a bat shit crazy spinmeister. Thinking is left to the latte drinking liberal elitists (I have to give the Thugs one small piece of credit, they can frame debate a fuck of a lot better than we do), not the hoi polloi. :eyes:

[izzie]

4. I guess I am not using the word think in the right way..

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[Doctor_J]

3. Here they just have them fired

I'm glad I don't live in Iraq

:sarcasm: