http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20090226/ On February 26, 2009, President Obama’s administration lifted the two-decade ban on media coverage of the honor guard ceremonies of military casualties from the war abroad. This change in policy gives back to the media the right to cover ceremonies wherein caskets draped in American flags return home from war, only after the soldiers’ families were consulted. According to an online article of The National Security Archive, the press had access to cover the honor ceremonies ever since World War II up until the end of the 1989 Panama invasion. However, in the beginning of the Continue reading...
