Israeli military censor guilty of double standards

Here is evidence that the Israeli censors are employing double standards. The media operating within Israel have been instructed by the government not to identify the exact locations where Hezbollah's rockets are falling. But Israel's TV stations and newspaper photographers - driven by competition and the public's understandable appetite for information - are racing to the scene of the latest hit. A spokesman at Israel's censorship headquarters remarked, "We are flexible" and suggested that it is impossible to stop the media. Unless, of course, the journalists are from the pan-Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera. Suddenly, the censorship is inflexible. Israeli police have detained the station's crews four times in the last two days, detaining them on three occasions for hours at a time. (Via U.S. News & World Report)