Yahoo! News - Study: Media Self-Censored Some Iraq Coverage

Yahoo! News - Study: Media Self-Censored Some Iraq Coverage

". . .in many cases, journalists posted material online that did not make it to print."

A new study based on a survey conducted among journalists who covered the war in Iraq suggests that American media outlets self-censored their coverage of the conflict.

You can read about the American University study's details in the complete article linked above.

This portion of the story stuck me as more appropriate to our ongoing class discussion of the roles of new media technologies and writing for digital media:

"In most cases, the Web sites were used not to run material censored from print but to take advantage of the virtually limitless space the Net offers for photographic essays, extended interviews, and behind-the-scenes reporter accounts. "