The Press: Censorship in the Making

The most outspoken sense-making examination of Government censorship yet offered the U.S. public was last week put forth in an article in the June issue of FORTUNE. Its basic perspective: "That the deepest duty of a democratic press in wartime is to remain aggressively free, critical, and informative."

Some of FORTUNE'S points:

ΒΆ "The press in a democracy is still the fourth estate; it is almost a fourth branch of government. It is not, as in Germany or the U.S.S.R., a branch of the government, .but a part of our constitutional system. It is impossible...

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