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Censorship in a Different Name

Press “Supervision” in Wartime Japanese American Camps 1942–1943

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ID23197344
AuthorsTakeya Mizuno (Toyo University, Tokyo, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume88
Issue1
Pages121-141
Publication date2011-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-6990 • E-ISSN: 2161-430X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/107769901108800107
OpenAlexW1733668230
LanguageEN
Citations received1

When the federal government in 1942 forced Japanese Americans into “relocation centers,” camp officials allowed them to publish newspapers “freely,” under “supervision,” without “censorship.” In reality, however, the camp press was hardly “free.” Newspapers published under governmental auspices were inevitably subject to various types of editorial interference. The camp authority's “supervision” took various forms, including pre- and post-publication reviews, selective staff employment, convocation of “meetings,” supplying of news and propaganda material, and even direct and coercive editorial interference that officials themselves admitted to be “censorship.” Camp officials also elicited self-restraint from staffers, making strict supervision or censorship unnecessary.

Advertising · Business · Censorship · Government (linguistics) · Journalism · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Publication · Publishing · Relocation · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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