Military Censors Hampering News Coverage in Palestine

Associated Press, London

Transcribed from the clipping

"An Associated Press survey shows censorship to be strictest in Syria and Lebanon, where all foreign correspondents’ dispatches must pass through the hands of censors. In Palestine Haganah, the Jewish defense force, censors all Jewish papers... AP correspondents filing from Amman have been free to cable their stories without interference, but have been threatened repeatedly with expulsion if they write ‘unfavorably’ about the government."

Context added by this archive

A wire service auditing the censorship around it, one week before the declaration.

Cite this item

"Military Censors Hampering News Coverage in Palestine," Jackson Citizen Patriot, 13 May 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-033. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-033

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