Media Coverage And The War
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Media Coverage And The War
...freedoms enjoyed by the public is the right to free speech and press. However, there are exceptions which are considered to be outside of the amendment’s scope, one of those being information exchange during times of war. Media coverage of wartime events has, too, gone through an evolution, spanning WWII to the present day.
WWII and the Media
Amazingly, during the 1940’s the media were not the Pit bulldogs that they are today. The media actually volunteered to self-censor itself. This was brought about by the creation of the civilian-led Office of Censorship which was created by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. the WWII era of voluntary media censorship as supervised by the civilian-led Office of Censorship
As a result, it would seem that the self censored media did a more exacting job than any enforced policy could have. Nothing escaped the scrutiny of the Office of Censorshipluding sporting event announcements, letters to Santa; not...
