Editors Respond To Being Kicked Out Of Gitmo: "Bad Public Policy", "Panicked Move"...

Editor and Publisher Joe Strupp June 14, 2006 at 03:43 PM

Top editors from two of the newspapers whose reporters were expelled from Guantanamo Bay today criticized the Pentagon for the action, calling it "bad public policy" and a "panicked move."

Tom Fiedler, executive editor of the Miami Herald, and Rick Thames, editor of the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, said the decision to expel the Herald's Carol Rosenberg and the Observer's Michael Gordon, along with Carol Williams of the Los Angeles Times, was a clear denial of press access.

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