This Note grows out of two recent efforts by the Bush administration to shape media coverage of its programs: secret payments to columnists and the dissemination of fake press reports. It explores ...the little-studied history of such covert news management tactics and shows that, contrary to the prevailing wisdom, such attempts to manage the media by stealth did not originate with the Bush administration. Though these tactics may be time-honored, they have continually sparked criticism that they compromise the independence of the media. This Note further analyzes the treatment of government news management under current law. After showing why the regulatory regime is irredeemably flawed, this Note contends that judicial intervention is necessary to address core constitutional concerns. Specifically, it concludes that news management tactics that conceal the government's role as a source are unconstitutional forms of viewpoint discrimination that violate the First Amendment. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
The go-ahead came on the evening of April 1. As Marines staged a diversionary attack, besieging nearby Iraqi irregulars, Army Rangers set up a perimeter around the hospital. It was a moonless night, ...but the stars were bright enough to guide the Navy SEALs who slipped into the hospital. Led to her room by a doctor on duty, the SEALs opened the door and asked for Jessica Lynch. At first, she was silent, a sheet pulled tightly over her head. "We're U.S. soldiers," said one of the SEALs. "We're here to protect you and take you home." She responded, "I'm an American soldier too." As they rushed her out to a nearby helicopter, Lynch squeezed the hand of an Army Ranger and said, "Don't let anyone leave me." All the while, planes outfitted with special communications gear circled overhead, allowing a video feed of the events to be broadcast to the military's top brass in Qatar, who were able to watch the rescue in real time.
Hollywood could not have dreamed up a more singular tale. Jessica Lynch, a onetime Miss Congeniality winner in the beauty pageant at her county fair, enlisted in the Army out of necessity, to help ...pay for the college education she needed to become a kindergarten teacher. Her odyssey began on the evening of March 23, when she and 14 other soldiers from her convoy of the 507th Maintenance Company were ambushed on or near Highway 1, a main north-south artery into Baghdad.
Storming into Poland Morse, Jodie
Time (Chicago, Ill.),
03/2003, Letnik:
161, Številka:
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Magazine Article
The border fighting began under cover of night. By dawn the Polish city of Dirschau was under siege, and it was official: Germany had attacked its neighbor. At 10 a.m. Hitler finally emerged from his ...fortress.
