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...Earnest Hoberecht Watonga, Okla...
...session, things were worse than ever. Army and Navy officers did such a bad job describing what had happened that it was plain neither had been at the second truce meeting. A few reporters, who had been drinking too much for their own good, hooted derisively. U.P. Correspondent Earnest Hoberecht angrily cried: "General Ridgway assured us that the briefing officers would attend the conferences. I say we've been double-crossed...
Time for Action. For all these violations of security, the Army could blame itself as well as correspondents. Early in the war, Correspondent Handleman and U.P.'s Tokyo bureau chief, Earnest Hoberecht, had asked the Army for some kind of military censorship. This and other such suggestions had been turned down by General MacArthur in favor of "voluntary censorship" (TIME, July 24). This ruling failed to recognize that newspapermen might honestly misjudge the importance of a particular piece of information. Nor did it allow for the fact that in the fiercely competitive business of news gathering there are bound...
...distinction between military security and military prestige. While no newsman wanted to report strictly military information that might aid and comfort the enemy, every honest newsman wanted to tell the story straight, even if the telling reflected on the prestige of U.S. arms. As U.P. Tokyo Bureau Chief Earnest Hoberecht said: "The United Press will report victories when there are victories, but we cannot report victories when there are defeats...
...same day, General MacArthur flew to Korea (see WAR IN ASIA), taking along four correspondents-the Associated Press's Russell Brines, the United Press's Earnest Hoberecht, International News Service's Howard Handleman, and Australian Newsman Roy MacArtney. In the Bataan, when it flew back to Tokyo with MacArthur, was LIFE'S Photographer David Duncan, who took with him the first complete picture coverage of the war. (His photographs appear in this week's LIFE and TIME...