We write our scripts, we find one of the censors who's down in the hotel lobby, and we show it to the censor, who reads it, and sometimes there's a slight change of a word here or there. Very often you may say something you didn't realize would touch a sensitivity, but there's not been any kind of heavy censorship in my experience here so far. It's a fairly easy understanding we have. You're never allowed to report.
Nothing's ever wrong.
The Iraqi government evidently decides what he can report, much as the U.S. government decides what the media may report from the other side of the war. Since both governments so tightly manage news coverage of the war, it is important to have journalists of integrity such as Arnett at every possible vantage point. But if the Pentagon succeeds in severely restricting access to information, all the air time imaginable won't fill the gap in what the public needs to know about the war. In recent weeks the halls of Congress have been fouled by superpatriotic blasts from a small band of conservative legislators. By the way, this is not a war with the Viet Cong.