From the LA Times blog, Babylon & Beyond:
The international press is also using the IDF network, as most other communications are down.
It's only when the MSM literally works against the IDF in wartime that the army cracks down.
Which is why Reporters Without Borders ranked Israel at 150 for "extra-territorial" actions — mostly for imposing press restrictions on Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. (The RSF ranked Israel's domestic press freedom at 93. You can see the RSF's full Press Freedom Index.)
I support Israel's press restrictions during the war, and I explained why a few weeks ago. In a nutshell:
In the final analysis of 2009, many in the press weren't simply "neutral observers." Both in cases where the MSM was used and in cases where the the MSM itself sought to influence events, big media became "participants." If this is a dynamic of asymmetric warfare, we have to ask if press coverage is now "warfare by other means."
So the IDF's helping journos in the stricken Caribbean island, and Hugo Chavez says the West is using aid as a pretext for the occupation of Haiti. Would he say the MSM's complicit?
