Claim

Claim 785

A newspaper editor told President Bush that the Panama press pool had again shown the arrangement for covering the start of a military operation did not work.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement: A newspaper editor told President Bush that the Panama press pool had again shown the arrangement for covering the start of a military operation did not work.
Field: effect_on_reporting
Value: Editors said the pool failed again in Panama
About: incident 1989-us-panama-press-pool-restricted
Source: Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Publisher: The American Presidency Project
Method: primary document
Checked: 2026-09-26
Confidence: high
Status: current
Source date: 1990-04-06

Quotation from the source

the experience of the press pool in Panama again proved that this arrangement for covering the early stages of a military action is not working