The Pentagon should abandon censorship | Warren Lerude Warren Lerude

Now this ... in America.

Official government control of the news.

But there's a hitch. The reporters aren't buying it.

Not those from the conservative Fox network. Nor those from the liberal New York Times newspaper.

Nor those at The Associated Press, whose impartial news reports are used by both the Times and Fox and hundreds of other diversified newspapers, magazines, television and cable networks and thousands of online readers and viewers throughout the free world.

Nor should the readers and viewers of either Fox or the Times buy it … nor should those who get their news anywhere else.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who