Failure to communicate

Published August 18, 2004

On August 7, the provisional Iraqi government clamped down on satellite news network Al-Jazeera's operations inside Iraq, shutting the news channel's Baghdad studios for a period of at least one month as punishment for its coverage of political violence inside the country. This past weekend, all media professionals were ordered out of the vicinity of Najaf, a holy city which has become a battleground, but there has...