Miller motive press censorship?
Free Market News Network
by Anthony Wile
10/19/05
Disclosures about 'Plamegate' Judy Miller's journalistic career continue -- along with increased puzzlement over its longevity given her apparent incompetence and disappointment. But as FMNN pointed out yesterday, the recent introduction of the Press Shield bill has changed everything. Importantly, it put into context why Miller may have gone to jail. It allowed her to serve as a 'martyr' -- and therefore provide a real-life, suffering individual to create a wave of public sympathy that would sweep the Shield bill along. If the above analysis is correct, then Senator Richard Lugar, Miller, the New York Times and those in the Bush administration and the State Department are orchestrating the passage of legislation that will impose on America for the first time in history the structure for out-and-out press censorship...
http://fmnn.com/Analysis/134/2654/2005-10-19.asp?wid=134&nid=2654
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Anthony Wile
10/19/05
Disclosures about 'Plamegate' Judy Miller's journalistic career continue -- along with increased puzzlement over its longevity given her apparent incompetence and disappointment. But as FMNN pointed out yesterday, the recent introduction of the Press Shield bill has changed everything. Importantly, it put into context why Miller may have gone to jail. It allowed her to serve as a 'martyr' -- and therefore provide a real-life, suffering individual to create a wave of public sympathy that would sweep the Shield bill along. If the above analysis is correct, then Senator Richard Lugar, Miller, the New York Times and those in the Bush administration and the State Department are orchestrating the passage of legislation that will impose on America for the first time in history the structure for out-and-out press censorship...
http://fmnn.com/Analysis/134/2654/2005-10-19.asp?wid=134&nid=2654
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 20. Okt, 19:40
