Frontline's recently-aired News War is an important piece of documentary work that features ( among many others ) indie journalist Josh Wolf .
In Federal prison on civil contempt charges for having refused to turn over raw video footage of a 2005 G8 demonstration that turned violent, Mr. Wolf is the longest-jailed journalist in American history.
Frontline writes on its site :
"In a four-hour special, News War , FRONTLINE examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn. Through interviews with key figures in print, broadcast 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 challenges presented by the war on terror and other global forces now changing -- and...
