Graymail and Freedom of the Press
Another AIPAC motion to intervene filer, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, clarified the mainstream corporate media’s collective desire to continue serving as a willing conduit for selectively released classified information, According to Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, “Journalists who cover national security and defense receive classified information all the time, It’s virtually routine. If that were the standard for bringing an espionage case, we’d be locking up a lot of people in this town and there would be fewer sources of information.”
Notwithstanding the press’s apparent willingness to be used to further AIPAC or any other lobbies’ policy objectives by selective disclosure of classified information, secrecy in trials raises questions. Does the elite media’s own reporting record reveal a consistent industrywide commitment calling for disclosure of secret evidence in all high profile criminal trials? It does not.