"The report states that a large section of the U.S. media has begun to act pretty much like a propaganda machine for the state and details the many instances of self-censorship and censorship by media owners. The report lists attempts by the state to limit the free circulation of information via the Internet; intimidate journalists whose opinions differ from the White House's (recalling the famous phrase of White House spokesman Ari Fleischer: "The reminder is to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do."); subject state media to censorship (attempts were made to ban the broadcast of an interview with Taliban leader Mullah Omar Mohammed on the Voice of America), as well as to put pressure on foreign media (the appeals of the U.S. State Department to the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, requesting that he interfere with the editorial line of the al-Jazeera television channel which he founded -- the only television station to broadcast pictures from the Taliban-controlled side of Afghanistan)."
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