Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Censorship and "loyalty" investigations, he stated, produce "submissive" people, teachers who advocate only "approved" doctrines, writers who never produces critical and independent works, and statesmen who suppress many of their ideas for fear of removal from office...
...first time since the Korean war began, U.S. news services last week were getting incomprehensible, hashed-up field dispatches tersely ending: "Rest of story withheld by censor." Reason: General MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters had imposed a second censorship on stories already cleared by General Matt Ridgway's Eighth Army censors in the field, and had set up a board of ex-combat officers to run it. Under this sort of fire, Eighth Army censors had become tougher...
...since 1) it did not apply to Navy or Air Force dispatches and 2) censors on the battlefield presumably know more about what should be killed than Tokyo. The New York Herald Tribune's David McConnell, who was censored by Tokyo in filing a story on the new censorship itself, pointed out that all news from Korea moves on "unsecure" telephone and teletype lines, "which the Communists can and almost certainly are" tapping. Thus, it does little good to censor dispatches after they reach Tokyo Added he: "There had been no explanation of why the MacArthur command...
...Columbus, Ohio, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer suggested to the Ohio Newspaper Association that some sort of voluntary censorship is necessary to prevent leaks of defense data. While he admitted that many leaks came from people in Washington who liked "seeing their names in the papers," Sawyer thought the American Society of Newspaper Editors could work out a way of keeping such leaks out of the papers. To help them out, he had set up a division in the Commerce Department to offer advice on what people could say or not say about industrial technical data without violating security. "This...
...anti-Truman New York Daily News thought there was something fishy about the preoccupation of two non-military Cabinet members with censorship problems. For fellow newsmen it had a warning: "Brace Yourselves, Gents . . . Evidently honest criticism is getting under Harry's hide . . . Better close ranks right now, and get set for the next snide Administration attack on the freedom of the press...