August 29, 2005
On Censorship and War
Mister Snitch:
Lincoln did censor the press during the Civil War. His administration took control of telegraph lines, temporarily shut down disloyal newspapers and denied them access to the mails (the primary means of communication in a world before phones, radio, TV, etc.), and arbitrarily arrested editors.
Most US wars have been waged under censorship restrictions. World War I saw some press controls reminiscent of those enforced during the Civil War. Congress passed the Sedition Act and the Espionage Act, giving the Postmaster General the authority to censor the mails. President Wilson created the Committee on Public Information and the National Censorship Board. His Secretary of War took control of telegraph and phone lines leading out of the US. Some editors were arrested.
During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Office of Censorship and the Office of War Information. The Army and Navy likewise imposed censorship restrictions.
Do I even have to say
READ THE REST?
I believe I've been saying something like this for, er, how long now?
Censorship in a State of War
How we Lost the War in Iraq
Hat tip to, well, er, just about every body I know!
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Yes the American press fights on the enemys side has since the 60's.
I know one American we need to draft for service in this one.
Bugs Bunny, That's right WB do your part.
Posted by: Howie at August 29, 2005 03:00 PM (D3+20)
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see???...goes to show you how much the press is suspect of not being truthfull and on reporting the FACTS, not on making up stories or attacking our own leaders....Lincoln was viciously attacked by the Northern press during the Civil War and it did its best to give moral support to the South, thats a good reason why the South fought on as long as it did...Southern soldiers regulary got their hands on Northern papers and saw how {supposedly} how poor moral was in the Yankee armies and how sick of the war the Yankee civilians where and how they wanted peace...made the South fight harder and believe that if they hung on just a little longer that the North would give up and quit...same thing apllies now in Iraq...the leftist/liberal papers and big mouths like Cindy Sheenan and Mikey Moore are giving the terrorists moral support....that is a traitor and as such they should be arrested as traitors
Posted by: THANOS35 at August 30, 2005 12:49 AM (hcN1S)
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I guess the value of censorship would be to throw a wrench into the works of the
ancien regime, but I'd rather just show them up for the fools they are. If they deliberately start propagandizing falsehoods, as opposed to the their conventional confusion and incompetence censorship may be the only way to stop it.
Posted by: Demosophist at August 30, 2005 04:42 AM (uC/yl)
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