Wartime Censorship of Press and Radio (1942) By Robert E Summers
 
This volume is planned to tell the story of the development of censorship in World War II, with reference to its operation, its origin, its problems, and its purpose. The field is an important one and covers many phases of activity in wartime America. Since censorship is closely linked with so many separate fields, this discussion is limited to news control alone as it affects the radio and the press.
 
No attempt is made to discuss the problems of propaganda, of suppression of freedom of speech, of the constitutional or legal aspects of censorship, or of the situation abroad, although perhaps these problems rightfully belong to the overall censorship picture.
 
In wartime censorship of radio and the press, however, there have been greater developments and more direct evidence of news control than in any other field which the subject might possibly include. News control, after all, most directly concerns the average citizen as he listens to his radio or reads his daily paper. Comparatively little has appeared on the subject in the newspaper columns or the nation's periodicals. Almost exclusively, the news relating to the developments in the field of censorship has been limited to leading trade journals of the news industry Variety and Broadcasting for radio Editor-Publisher for the press.
 
This book represents an attempt to bring together materials relating to every phase of censorship of news on the radio and in the press and to present a well-rounded picture of the situation as it exists today. Both sides of the question are presented as fairly and with as little partiality as possible. The writer wishes to express his appreciation, for permission to reprint certain of the materials used in this book, to the Council for Democracy, to the American Civil Liberties Union.
 
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