Press Censorship in the Persian Gulf. An Interview with Jonathan L. Wiggs, Boston Globe Photographer

The photographer relates his experiences and frustrations with
the restrictive press pools formed to contain press coverage of
the Gulf War. Earlier Wiggs covered the 1989 U.S. invasion of
Panama, where 'the media were completely shut out.' The forming
of press pools seems to be the result of a meeting between Pete
Williams (director of Pentagon's Public Relations) and the 'Gang
of Five' (Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Nightrider
and Associated Press). Later, this 'Gang of Five' controlled the
stream of pictures, and reviewed them before publication. 'It
was basically left to the "Gang of Five" to self censor".