ute we can pay to our colleagues.</p>

<P><I>Serge Schmemann is a member of the <I>New York Times</I> editorial board. He has covered South Africa, the Soviet Union, Germany, post-Soviet Russia, and Israel. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for his coverage of Germany's reunification. This essay is excerpted from </I>Attacks on the Press in 2002<I>, copyright © 2003 by the Committee to Protect Journalists, New York. Excerpted by permission of the Committee to Protect Journalists.</I></p>
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