Media Found to Have No Right to Troop Access
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Pentagon has no constitutional obligation to provide the media access to U.S. troops during combat.
The ruling is believed to be the first by a federal appeals court on whether journalists have a 1st Amendment right to be given access to news rather than only publishing information already gathered.
The court ruled in a case involving Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who had sought to send reporters with U.S. troops at the start of the Afghanistan war.
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