Winston-Salem Journal · Winston-Salem, North Carolina · 19 May 1948
CP-1948-135
War Censorship in Palestine Held Distorting All News
Associated Press
Transcribed from the clipping
“TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — News coverage of the Palestine war has become so fragmentary and so second-hand these past few days that correspondents here have no assurance that their dispatches are not misinforming. In part this is because of the need of censorship for military security.
How much of the rest is due to war front developments and how much to the inexperience of the new public relations and press establishment in this Jewish headquarters city cannot immediately be judged. In the past four days dispatches reporting a succession of air raids on Tel Aviv give a good example.
It is incorrect to assume from these that there have been extensive bombings of the city. The attacks are described only as having been made upon Tel Aviv because censorship forbids specific identification of the district attacked…”
Context added by this archive
The same Tel Aviv dispatch the same day, and this headline goes furthest: the censorship is distorting all news. The word held keeps it at one remove.
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"War Censorship in Palestine Held Distorting All News," Winston-Salem Journal, 19 May 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-135. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-135
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