In a press release, the State Department has just announced that journalists who enter Libya without authorization will be considered terrorist collaborators by the Libyan government, who will arrest them if they are caught. The only reporters being allowed into Libya right now are CNN, BBC Arabic and Al Arabiya.
In the wake of all the violence towards the media that we've seen in the Middle East, the idea that the government of one of these countries in turmoil has officially declared itself off-limits is even more troubling. We may not know exactly what's happening in Libya right now, but it doesn't look too good.
Do you think the State Department is doing the right thing by warning journalists not to sneak into Libya illegally? How would you feel if an American journalist was arrested in Libya for trying to report on the developing situation there?
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