What the media rarely shows

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by yesman065

I wouldn't allow them in there either. ..

Would that be to protect the freedom of the press, or to try to influence the news that Americans have access to?

[yesman065]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Would that be to protect the freedom of the press, or to try to influence the news that Americans have access to?

Neither - To simply conduct a militarycampaign without any more innocent idiots getting in the way or giving out information that would cost innocent lives. The press is there looking for an angle or a cool shot to sell papers or mags/whatever. It will also keep them from getting shot and to keep the troops from having to second guess & worry about where these people are or go to rescue them when they are caught by the enemy and paraded and beheaded on TV. Nothing, nothing positive will come from the press being there. They aren't going to prevent anyone from doing anything so forget any watchdog issue.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Would that be to protect the freedom of the press, or to try to influence the news that Americans have access to?

That kind of thinking is pretty twentieth-century. Information now has too many pipelines for a government to reasonably expect to choke off or control -- the classical twentieth-century dictatorship may be called an "information dictatorship" for its use of basically rationing information to the populace. About the only two that are left of this type are Cuba and North Korea. Even the Great Firewall Of China will not prove adequate to its task and will be burned through by the demands and needs of the Chinese populace.