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January marks the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War. By ordinary military standards it was hardly a war. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed while the American total was 150, and most of those were from friendly fire. The US carefully managed and controlled the news in the Gulf War. The so-called free press was literally led by the nose from one Pentagon briefing to another. Few voices challenged the most restrictive rules ever imposed on the media.
Erwin Knoll, a vigorous opponent of censorship and champion of the First Amendment, was one of this country's most distinguished journalists. He was a reporter and editor at The Washington Post. For 21 years he was the editor of The Progressive. He died in 1994.
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