Journalism teachers condemn Bush White House for anti-press policies.

Attendees at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in San Francisco on Friday passed a resolution condemning "anti-press policies" taken by the Bush administration in recent years.

“This is the first statement against general anti-press policies in an administration in at least 30 years,” said David Mindich, author of the resolution and professor of journalism and mass communication at Saint Michael’s College.

Policies that members of the leading group of journalism academics (with 3,500 members) asked the White House to abandon included tight restrictions on the flow of information, "staged town meetings," refusal to allow photos of coffins returning from Iraq, "massive reclassification of documents," attempts to consolidate media, use of "bribes" to columnists and distribution of uncredited video news releases, and "using the courts to pressure journalists to give up their sources and to punish them for obtaining leaked information."

These criminals are simply terrified that the press will expose more of their illegal and unethical behavior to the American people.