What is the governments role in ensuring an uninhibited, robust, and wide-open press?
Certainly, the Supreme Court can play a role: by finding a right of access to the press to be present in war zones, for example. From the standpoint of public policy, there is a major role of international trade structures, the World Trade Organization, to take account of freedom of the press; foreign direct investment treaties can play a role. You argue that the recent wars have hindered the free press. The restrictions placed at various times on access by the press to war zones, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, seriously inhibited and impeded the ability of news organizations to find out what was going on. That is a major issue that we face: the proper relationship between the press and the U.S. government when the latter is taking major actions—in this case, going to war. Have you seen improvements with the new administration? Certainly, the statements Secretary [Hillary] Clinton made referring to the alleged censorship by the Chinese government of Google in which she embraced freedom
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