The Captive Press

Download or read book The Captive Press written by Ted Galen Carpenter and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crude forms of coercion by the national security bureaucracy are not the only source of danger to a vigorous, independent press. An equally serious threat is posed by the government's abuse of the secrecy system to control the flow of information and prevent disclosures that might cast doubt on the wisdom or morality of current policy. Most insidious and corrosive of all is the attempt by officials to entice journalists to be members of the foreign policy team rather than play their proper role as skeptical monitors of government conduct.