News War Starts Tonight
(CBS/AP)
Frontline is beginning a four-part series on the media, starting this evening on PBS.
From Frontline's Web site:
In a four-and-a-half-hour special, News War, FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn. Through interviews with key figures in the print and electronic media over the past four decades -- and with unequaled, behind-the-scenes access to some of today's most important news organizations, FRONTLINE traces the recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon administration's attacks on the media to the post-Watergate popularity of the press, to the new challenges presented by the war on terror and other global forces now changing -- and challenging -- the role of the press in our society.Tonight's installment looks at the journalistic issues surrounding controversies since Watergate all the way up to the most recent media-government saga: the CIA leak investigation.
(By the way, the series' correspondent is Lowell Bergman, who was a "60 Minutes" producer for 14 years.)
UPDATE: The Baltimore Sun has a preview of the show here.