Ann Marie Slaughter, of R2P fame, pops in different places and thanks to a "lurker" she has written 'The Media Cold War', which appears on a Swiss think tank's website:http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international...dia-cold-war-2

She opens with:
An information war has erupted around the world. The battle lines are drawn between those governments that regard the free flow of information, and the ability to access it, as a matter of fundamental human rights, and those that regard official control of information as a fundamental sovereign prerogative. The contest is being waged institutionally in organizations like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and daily in countries like Syria.
It ends with:
Americans say that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Citizens’ access to information is an essential tool to hold governments accountable. Government efforts to manipulate or block information should be presumed to be an abuse of power – one intended to mask many other abuses.