After
US Presdient Barack Obama’s two terms in office it gets increasingly
clear for everyone that freedom of speech in the United States can be
described as rigid control that the state exercises over the media and
journalists, while those who refuse to cooperate with the system find
themselves deprived of a chance to publish or promote their articles anywhere.
As it’s been noted in a report drafted by
the former editor-in-chief of the Washington Post, Leonard Downie,
since the era of Richard Nixon, no American president was as hostile to
the media as Barack Obama. The report also notes that the Obama
administration has been routinely spying on journalists, while punishing
harshly any and all whistleblowers.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) argues that a state can hardly be regarded as a democracy if it has a DoD manual that reads as follows:
Persons
authorized to accompany the armed forces are often referred to, and
treated as, “civilians,” since they are not members of the armed forces.
However, as discussed below, persons authorized to accompany the armed
forces are also treated like “combatants” in some respects.
States may need to censor
journalists’ work or take other security measures so that journalists do
not reveal sensitive information to the enemy. Under the law of war,
there is no special right for journalists to enter a State’s territory
without its consent or to access areas of military operations without
the consent of the State conducting those operations.
http://journal-neo.org/2017/01/11/should-we-recoin-the-term-orwellian-into-obamian/
