A new book -- The Fog of War -- challenges the view that censorship is always contrary to the public good. Conditions were very different from today. The book reveals that press censorship in Canada during the Second World War was a force for the right to know. Wartime newspapers, it is said, were timid and supine, content to re-print government-approved handouts to fill columns about the war against the Axis powers. Here.
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