For years, it has been politically expedient for major news outlets to cover up the truth and impose news blackouts on all serious issues, especially the Kurdish conflict.
On Tuesday, one congressman said he would introduce legislation to allow the police to impose "news blackouts" during future crises, and the government said it was evaluating police guidelines governing the news media during hostage situations.
In the first week of meetings, he accomplished little more than lowering the volume on the public spinning of the issues by imposing a news media blackout.
Publicly, in what seemed a neon illustration of why the Americans are imposing the news blackout, the senior negotiators for the two sides have expressed contrasting views of the possibilities of achievement.
But it was the only glimpse offered into what the Americans, imposing a news blackout, are trying to make an airtight environment safe from the pressures of public scrutiny.
Although Abiomed of Danvers, Mass., publicized its artificial heart in April, Dr. Gray said his team and the company had vowed that they "would do the implant under the cloak of secrecy," imposing a news blackout for up to 30 days after the operation.
And Bectu – while it opposes the IFNC idea in favour of finding a new way of funding the existing services – believes that if the new system is imposed, transferring news staff from ITV to ITN would be the best outcome.
Since the players' contract expires on Aug. 31, and negotiations on a new one — obviously delicate — are under way, the players decided to impose a news media blackout, and Tony Beadle, the executive director, said in a telephone message that management wanted to "keep an even keel".
It said a government faced with growing social unrest had imposed a news blackout.
This week, the players and Mr. Weiss closeted themselves in negotiations and imposed a news blackout.
