(iverson's) currentbuzz: Censorship con't.--McClatchy gets cold shoulder from Pentagon and Defense Department

I wrote about the excellent journalistic work of PBS and Bill Moyers in producing the documentary "Buying the War"and made my students view it. You can watch it online, so don't pass this one up.

The website the doc is embedded in, is the future of journalism, at least of one kind of journalism. Look at the sidebars, the timelines and other features. Too many interviewees for the piece? Don't leave them on the cutting floor, put them in links. I believe lots of my students will be doing journalism for sites like this and producing context for stories that reporters can do and that the citizen journalist will not be able to produce.

Anyway, the doc demonstrates that McClatchy reporters were the only publically skeptical and hard-nosed reporters in the run-up to the tar-baby of a war we are engaged in, in Iraq. Now, it looks like no good reporting goes unpunished and McClatchy reporters are being black-listed by the Pentagon. I say, it is a badge of good reporting...

Jonathan Landay, a former Pentagon correspondent and one of the co-authors of McClatchy's pre-war coverage, said he last traveled on the plane with then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 to Istanbul, Turkey, for a NATO economic summit. Since then, he says, none of McClatchy's people have flown. "It is unusual because we get aboard about two out of three trips [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice makes," Landay said. "They have a different policy at the Pentagon. We are definitely being discriminated against."

Source: editorandpublisher.com