“Bush’s War on the Press”

“America’s leadership is waging a war against the journalistic standards and practices that underpin not only a free press but our democracy,” Free Press campaign director Timothy Karr blogs.

He says “this deception has manifest in seven lines of attack: Infiltrating public broadcasting with party loyalists, Manufacturing fake news and propaganda, Bribing journalists to flack for the administration, Gutting the Freedom of Information Act, Deceiving media (and the U.S. public) about Iraq, Eliminating dissent within mainstream media, and Consolidating media control into the hands of the elite.”