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This 8 page paper discusses the media's role in war reporting and the evolution it has undergone since WWII. Examples are given with appropriate quotes from noted experts. Bibliography includes 5 sources.
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are considered to be outside of the amendments 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 1940s 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 Censorship, including sporting event
announcements, letters to Santa; not even the First Lady was exempt from censorship. "In August, 1942 a newspaper columnist received a "very stern letter" from the U.S. government because
she had described the weather during a trip with her husband. Eleanor Roosevelt promised not to do it again"(Censorship 2003).
A large part of the success of this program is due to the leadership of one man: Byron Price(Sweeny 2001).
As a former reporter for the AP, himself, he was able to persuade journalists and broadcasters to exercise extreme caution in the information that was presented for public consumption, on
a temporary basis, of course. With only a few exceptions, as Sweeney relates, the lids were kept sealed on such sensitive stories as the development of the atomic bomb and
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