President Bush vs. Free Press

Book of the Day: Casualty of War: The Bush Administration's Assault on a Free Press, by David Dadge.

Press censorship is a standard feature of warfare - governments naturally don't want the enemy to obtain too much information, but they do want to prop up morale at home. Should the same be true of the "war on terrorism," which isn't a declared war at all? Under President Bush, the American government has become very ambivalent towards press freedom and journalistic independence.

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