Journalism Educators Blast Bush Admin's "Anti-Press Policies"...

Editor & Publisher August 5, 2006 at 12:31 PM
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Attendees at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in San Francisco on Friday passed a resolution condemning "anti-press policies" taken by the Bush administration in recent years. It was described as the first such resolution against a president since the Vietnam war era.

Policies that members of the leading group of journalism academics asked the White House to abandon included tight restrictions on the flow of information, "staged town meetings," refusal to allow photos of coffins returning from Iraq, "massive reclassification of documents," attempts to consolidate media, use of "bribes" to columnists and distribution of uncredited video news releases, and "using the courts to pressure journalists to give up their sources and to punish them for obtaining leaked information."

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