AP Photo - Tom Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press, right, receives a national citation from William Allen White Foundation chairman Tom Eblen during the William Allen White Day program at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., Friday, Feb. 6, 2009. Orlin WagnerFrom Kentucky.com:
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- The Bush administration turned the U.S. military into a global propaganda machine while imposing tough restrictions on journalists seeking to give the public truthful reports about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Associated Press chief executive Tom Curley said Friday.
Curley, speaking to journalists at the University of Kansas, said the news industry must immediately negotiate a new set of rules for covering war because "we are the only force out there to keep the government in check and to hold it accountable."
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My Comment: The Press corps will probably never have access to military ops. Not because the military does not want them (though there is probably a large number of military types who do not want a journalist 100 miles within their vicinity) .... no .... it is that most journalists would not be able to keep up with the men who have been training constantly for conducting military ops.
And let us also not forget the .... cough, cough ..... the bias.
But in my own humble opinion, if the AP reporter is in top shape both mentally and physically, and will not be a burden to the troops .... I say let them be in the ops. Sharing what the soldiers go through will provide a reporting that has so far been absent in both Afghanistan and Iraq these past few years.
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