The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law CUA Law Scholarship Repository Scholarly Articles and Other Contributions Faculty Scholarship 1985 Don’t be Co-opted by the Folks who Brought us Vietnam, Grenada, and the Iranian Rescue Fiasco Harvey L. Zuckman The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.edu/scholar Part of the Communications Law Commons Recommended Citation Harvey L. Zuckman, Don’t be Co-opted by the Folks who Brought us Vietnam, Grenada, and the Iranian Rescue Fiasco, COMM. LAW., Winter 1985, at 15. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at CUA Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarly Articles and Other Contributions by an authorized administrator of CUA Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Don't Be Co-opted by the Folks Who Brought Us Vietnam, Grenada, and the Iranian Rescue Fiasco BY HARVEY L. ZUCKMAN After much negotiation with the position taken by James Madison to American Newspaper Publishers that taken by the Defense Depart- Association and the American ment, ANPA, and ASNE. Madison Society of Newspaper Editors, the wrote, "A popular government, Pentagon recently announced press without popular information, or the pool arrangements for the coverage means of acquiring it, is but a Pro- of future military operations and logue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or per- ground rules for release of informa- haps both. Knowledge will forever tion during such operations. As an- govern ignorance: and a people nounced by the Pentagon the basic who mean to be their own gover- principle is to be the maximum nors, must arm themselves with the release of information possible.