McClatchy journalist Pentagon banned gets First Amendment Award

[kpete]

Source: McClatchy

McClatchy journalist Pentagon banned gets First Amendment Award

McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald reporter banned by the Pentagon earlier this year from covering military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been awarded the Society of Professional Journalists' First Amendment Award for her efforts to cover the detention center there despite "consistent hostility in covering her beat."

Rosenberg will receive the honor Oct. 5 at the organization's annual awards banquet during its convention in Las Vegas.

Two other people also will be honored: Herschel Fink, a First Amendment lawyer who represented the Detroit Free Press in its push for access to public records that helped prove corruption by disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and David Cuillier, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona School of Journalism who has devoted much of his career to educating fellow journalists on how to access public records through freedom of information requests.

In its announcement of the award, SPJ said that Rosenberg's "expertise has been vital in chronicling opposition to President Obama's order to close" Guantanamo and that "she alone kept close track of Supreme Court-ordered habeas corpus hearings that resulted in release orders and judicial criticism of insufficient evidence that had kept prisoners confined for years."






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[damntexdem]

1. How nice of the Pentagon to give the type of endorsement that helped earn the award.

Any journalist who the Pentagon did not ban should have to justify why s/he would merit such an award.

;-)

[Ignis]

2. K&R. We need a few thousand more like her.

But in this era of "embedded journalism" :eyes: I'm sure we'll see good investigative reporters refused access more and more often.

[No Elephants]

3. Good work, Pentagon! Why should the 4th and 8th amendments be the only amendments we shred?

Freedom of the Press. Bam!


Freedom of Speech. Bam!


Freedom of Religion. Bam!


Don't you dare mess with the Second Amendment, though. The RW loves that one and, unlike the Left, the RW really fights for what it loves.


Onward, Christian soldiers!

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R