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Tuesday, February 20, 9-10 pm ET
Part two continues with the legal jeopardy faced by a number of
reporters across the country, and the additional complications
generated by the war on terror.
In the four-part special "News War," FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell
Bergman examines the political, cultural, legal and economic forces
challenging the news media today. Through interviews with key
figures in the print and electronic media over the past four
decades - and with unequaled, behind-the-scenes access to some of
today's most important news organizations - FRONTLINE traces
the recent history of American journalism, from the Nixon
administration's attacks on the media to the post-Watergate
popularity of the press, to the new complexities presented by the
war on terror, the Internet and other global forces now changing -
and challenging - the role of the press in our society.
Part two continues with the legal jeopardy faced by a number of
reporters across the country, and the additional complications
generated by the war on terror. Correspondent Lowell Bergman
interviews reporters facing jail for refusing to reveal their
sources in the context of leak investigations and asks questions on
tough issues that now confront the editors of the nation's leading
newspapers, including: how much can the press reveal about secret
government programs in the war on terror without jeopardizing
national security? FRONTLINE looks past the heated, partisan
rhetoric to determine how much of this battle is politics and
whether such reporting actually harms national security.