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Operation "Save Bush's Skin": Now Curbing the Press?

Wed Sep 07, 2005 at 12:13:43 PM PDT

Brigham e-mails this report from bloggers in New Orleans:

We are in Jefferson Parish, just outside of New Orleans. At the National Guard checkpoint, they are under orders to turn away all media. All of the reporters are turning they're TV trucks around. Things are so bad, Bush is now censoring all reporting from NOLA. The First Amendment sank with the city.

Presumably it is related to this:

The U.S. government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims.

Link.

Well newly emergent bulldog Press Corps, what do you have to say about this?

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