Opinion

‘How to counter the drip-drip-drip of the dead and the maimed? Blame the media.’

In coverage of the court-marital trial of Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a soldier accused of killing other American soldiers with a grenade attack, officers at Fort Bragg required reporters to…

‘In the past few weeks reporters have called, and the first thing out of their mouth is, “You want to go off the record?”’

‘If you push back, you can get results, and we need to push back more collectively.’

With secrecy on the rise, what is happening in Washington, D.C. is having a wider impact on how government officials relate to the press.

Surveys of journalists and public opinion place the use and need for anonymous sources in a broader context.

More in-depth and better-documented stories began to be told after an intensive training program.

‘There are journalists who justify their apathy with the lack of [good working] conditions.’

‘If any of my students reacted against the government’s methods of control, they feared for their lives.’

‘For people to have trust in this profession, to whom do they look for various standards, for professionalization, of the journalistic craft?’