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Censoring Arab journalists
A Middle Eastern journalist friend recently had an opportunity to sit round a table with a senior political figure from the region. He asked the man a fair, but critical question. The politician brushed it aside. When the meeting ended, the politician sought him out for a quiet word, along the lines of: Your owners…
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What the US military thinks of journalism
So what does the US military really think about journalists? Below are excerpts from a report that addresses wider issues about the first Battle of Fallujah but contains some interesting points about “information operations,” in Orwellian milspeak. The document is chiefly the work of Jane Austen fan Dr Sean Edwards, on whom more below. But…