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  • Full Wartime Censorship Placed on Korean War News [56 years ago, today]

    01/09/2007 11:14:25 AM PST · by syriacus · 36 replies · 806+ views
    Waterloo Daily Courier, front page | January 9, 1951 | UP
    Full Wartime Censorship Placed on Korean War NewsU. S. Eighth Army headquarters, Korea. –(UP) – The US.Eighth Army imposed full wartime censorship on news coverage of the Korean War Tuesday and threatened to courtmartial newsmen who deliberately report any troop movements without authorization.Veteran war correspondents agreed the regulations were the most inclusive they had ever received from any army headquarters.The rules placed correspondents under the complete jusrisdiction of the army and forbade any crisicism of the Allied conduct of the war.The regulations, succeeding the present security censorship, provide that all dispatches filed to publications throughout the world will be...