Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . On March 3, days after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, Erin Burnett, a CNN anchor, was broadcasting outdoors in Tel Aviv when she pointed up to the night sky. “We’re not going to show this live, because we don’t show this live, but I do see interceptors going up,” Burnett said, referring to Israel’s missile defense network. “We’re not showing you that because the Israeli government does not allow or want us to show where that may have come up.”  Burnett was acknowledging the Israeli Military Censor, a unit of the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that controls what journalists working in Israel can and cannot report. In the name of national security the censor unit has barred media in Israel—both domestic and foreign—not just from showing the locations of its interceptor launchers but also from publishing the location of successful Iranian missile attacks on military targets.…