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| Updates on ethical decision-making in newsrooms big and small, assembled by Poynter's Kelly McBride and colleagues. ... |
Sunday, March 16, 2008 --- 114 days ago http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=67&aid=138767
| By Bob Steele Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism Values There are times when it might make sense for news organizations to
agree to a military or government request to delay reporting a story.
The case of Prince Harry soldiering in Afghanistan was no such time. Mine is not an argument for reporting the story. Rather, it's a
criticism of the decision on the part of multiple news organizations to
agree to withhold it before it happened.
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Harry was deployed to Afghanistan only after a number of British media
outfits and some international news organizations agreed to stay
quiet, according to various reports. These news operations,
including the AP and CNN, went along with what some have termed an
embargo and others have called "a news blackout" about Harry serving in
battle. These organizations promised to hold back on this story until
after Harry returned from what was scheduled to be a four to six month
tour in Afghanistan.
The secrecy ended this week. As the AP reported , "Several news organizations -- including The Associated Press -- agreed
to keep the news under wraps to protect the prince and his fellow
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