The Pentagon’s Dangerous Views on the Wartime Press – The New York Times

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Opinion | The Pentagon’s Dangerous Views on the Wartime Press

The Defense Department’s new manual on the law of war could severely hinder the work of journalists covering armed conflicts.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/opinion/the-pentagons-dangerous-views-on-the-wartime-press.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

The Defense Department earlier this summer released a comprehensive manual outlining its interpretation of the law of war. The 1,176-page document, the first of its kind, includes guidelines on the treatment of journalists covering armed conflicts that would make their work more dangerous, cumbersome and subject to censorship. Those should be repealed immediately.