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To: kitkat
Thanks for the information.

You're welcome.

Here's something else most people don't realize happened, almost exactly 56 years ago.

Full Wartime Censorship Placed on Korean War News
Waterloo Daily Courier, front page | January 9, 1951 | UP

U. 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. [snip]

The rules placed correspondents under the complete jusrisdiction of the army and forbade any criticism 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 screened for military information which might injure the morale of UN troops or their government.

[more about the censorship rules at the FR link at the head of this article]
71 posted on 01/10/2007 3:48:24 PM PST by syriacus (IF Truman cut + ran after 3,000 deaths, THEN the Korean War would have ended in 5 weeks.)
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To: syriacus
Playing Poker with George Bush
73 posted on 01/10/2007 3:50:17 PM PST by Dog (DEMS--- 5 day work week..............errr...nevermind....100 hours...starting...soon .....MAYBE)
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