US journalists see the freedom of the press in their country in danger. A study lists reprisals, monitoring, law enforcement and blockages. So aggressive, no President since Richard Nixon have behave like Barack Obama.
He is the prototype of the whistleblowers: "Deep Throat" provided the "Washington Post" with sensitive information that in 1974 the Office cost the U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal. The identity of "Deep Throat" remained secret. Only a few insiders like the U.S. journalist Leonard Downie Jr. knew that it was the former FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt. Downie is the former editor-in-Chief of the "Washington Post". Now he sharply attacked the Government of Barack Obama in a study of freedom of the press: "The measures to control information, are the most aggressive since the Nixon administration."
The report "the Obama administration and the press", has written the Downie for the Organization "Committee to Protect Journalists", shows the ugly side of dealing the U.S. Government with media representatives - a misleading information policy, electronic monitoring of journalists or a dramatically increased prosecution of whistleblowers and Investigativreportern. "This is the control freak I Government, on which I have ever reported," says David E. Sanger, Washington correspondent of "New York Times". And the ABC correspondent Ann Compton called Obama the "in TRANS saving testing of all seven Presidents" her career.
Downie spoke with numerous colleagues, media experts and Government representatives. His conclusion: There is a climate of fear in the country, which already in 1791 wrote the freedom of the press is in the Constitution. Full story...
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He is the prototype of the whistleblowers: "Deep Throat" provided the "Washington Post" with sensitive information that in 1974 the Office cost the U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal. The identity of "Deep Throat" remained secret. Only a few insiders like the U.S. journalist Leonard Downie Jr. knew that it was the former FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt. Downie is the former editor-in-Chief of the "Washington Post". Now he sharply attacked the Government of Barack Obama in a study of freedom of the press: "The measures to control information, are the most aggressive since the Nixon administration."
The report "the Obama administration and the press", has written the Downie for the Organization "Committee to Protect Journalists", shows the ugly side of dealing the U.S. Government with media representatives - a misleading information policy, electronic monitoring of journalists or a dramatically increased prosecution of whistleblowers and Investigativreportern. "This is the control freak I Government, on which I have ever reported," says David E. Sanger, Washington correspondent of "New York Times". And the ABC correspondent Ann Compton called Obama the "in TRANS saving testing of all seven Presidents" her career.
Downie spoke with numerous colleagues, media experts and Government representatives. His conclusion: There is a climate of fear in the country, which already in 1791 wrote the freedom of the press is in the Constitution. Full story...
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