Michael S. Sweeney 
Secrets of Victory 
The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II

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During World War II, the civilian Office of Censorship supervised a huge and surprisingly successful program of news management: the voluntary self-censorship of the American press. In January 1942, censorship codebooks were distributed to all American newspapers, magazines, and radio stations with the request that journalists adhere to the guidelines within. Remarkably, over the course of the war no print journalist, and only one radio journalist, ever deliberately violated the censorship code after having been made aware of it and understanding its intent.




Secrets of Victory examines the World War II censorship program and analyzes the reasons for its success. Using archival sources, including the Office of Censorship’s own records, Michael Sweeney traces the development of news media censorship from a pressing necessity after the attack on Pearl Harbor to the centralized yet efficient bureaucracy that persuaded thousands of journalists to censor themselves for the sake of national security. At the heart of this often dramatic story is the Office of Censorship’s director Byron Price. A former reporter himself, Price relied on cooperation with–rather than coercion of–American journalists in his fight to safeguard the nation’s secrets.



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A former reporter and editor, Michael S. Sweeney is assistant professor of communications at Utah State University in Logan.
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 288 ● ISBN 9780807875605 ● Tamaño de archivo 1.8 MB ● Editorial The University of North Carolina Press ● Ciudad Chapel Hill ● País US ● Publicado 2003 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 6469002 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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