Iraqi press under attack

The Iraqi Press is coming under considerable pressure from the iraqi government according to reports in the New York Times

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local journalists have been put on notice that their organizations could be shut down for misquoting officials, while the Iraqi government accused the news media of deliberately seeking to promote sectarian strife.

reports the paper.

This is not the first time that the media have come under attack as the report points out that

In 2004, the interim government in Iraq banned Al Jazeera, the Arab world’s leading satellite news channel, on grounds of sympathizing with insurgents, and successive governments have extended the ban. An Iraqi television channel, Al Zawra, was permanently closed in 2005 after it broadcast videos of insurgent attacks on American troops.