Clamping down on journalists

Confused by tougher enforcement procedures, an increasing number of foreign journalists traveling from Europe and Australia have been detained and refused entry at U.S. airports in recent months, provoking concern and consternation here and abroad. The Chicago Tribune reports that one likely result could be reciprocal treatment of U.S. journalists traveling abroad.   Behind the Homefront article

Also Tuesday, Reuters issued a statement saying it has written to the U.S. Department of Defense to express its growing frustration at the U.S. military's failure to address its concerns about the safety of journalists in Iraq, and to answer its requests for more information regarding incidents which have cost or endangered their lives. Last year, two Reuters cameramen working in Iraq, Taras Protsyuk and Mazen Dana, were killed by U.S. troops. On 2 January this year, two Reuters journalists working in Iraq and their driver were arrested and detained for 72 hours by U.S. troops after they apparently were mistaken for enemy combatants. Following their release, Reuters lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. military authorities over, among other things, their mistreatment in detention. Reuters asked the U.S. military to retract or correct its statement that enemy personnel posing as journalists fired on U.S. forces, or if there were any basis for this charge, to provide evidence to support it.  Behind the Homefront article

....fat chance.