to have a bunch of American's die, you would want the free media providing the enemies of the US with information and helping them disseminated encoded messages.

And I know some people on this page WANT American's to die. After all, the anti-war protests won't start to really ROCK until there's some body bags on the news.

But, the rest of us understand that the press has to deal with some restrictions during times of war. Hence the limited information being disseminated to the public.

...but steam-cleaned, sanitized propaganda is another thing entirely. War-time attacks on press freedom always rely on such red-herring arguments. In fact, if the US government had only listened to the first critical press reports from Vietnam--back in 1962--we would never have gotten ourselves into that war in the first place. Nearly 60,000 American lives would have been saved. A free press doesn't kill American soldiers. A propaganda press does.