Muzzling the Press

WorkingForChange-Fifth columnists: "Fifth columnists
As suppression of dissent spreads, opposing views become rarer and more important than ever

'There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors,' says New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller. Remember, it was Keller's decision, in fall 2004, to sit on the NSA warrantless domestic spying story all through the November election -- and for over a year more after that -- that may well have given George Bush another term. When Bill Keller is crying wolf, you know things must be getting bad."