If we just close our eyes, then all bad news will never have happened. At least, if you work for the Bush White House that is. If we learn any facts, then the terrorists win. Or some such twaddle.
Reporters covering suicides at Guantanamo are expelled
Editors at three U.S. newspapers protested to the Pentagon Wednesday after their reporters were expelled from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were reporting on the weekend suicides of three prisoners.Journalists from the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald and The Charlotte Observer all received permission from a local commander to be at the detention facility. But the three reporters and a photographer from the Charlotte paper left the island Wednesday on orders from the Pentagon.
But the three newspapers that managed to have reporters at Guantanamo said the military should be doing everything possible to increase public knowledge about the controversial island prison.“Expelling [Los Angeles Times reporter] Carol Williams and her colleagues represents a Stone Age attitude that only feeds suspicions about what is going on at Guantanamo,” said Times Managing Editor Doug Frantz. The Los Angeles Times is owned by Tribune Co.
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