by Glenn Greenwald, 6/27/06
Any questions about whether the Bush administration intends to imprison
unfriendly journalists (defined as “journalists who fail to obey the
Bush administration’s orders about what to publish”) were completely
dispelled this weekend. As I have noted many times before,
one of the most significant dangers our country faces is the all-out
war now being waged on our nation’s media — and thereby on the First
Amendment’s guarantee of a free press — by the Bush administration and
its supporters, who are furious that the media continues to expose
controversial government policies and thereby subject them to
democratic debate. After the unlimited outpouring of venomous attacks
on the Times this weekend, I believe these attacks on our free press have become the country’s most pressing political issue. [read more]