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5/30/2021

The War Beat, Pacific: How the American News Media Went to War Against Japan

by Steven Casey

Censorship, technological limitations, and competition with news from Europe in World War II made the early part of the Pacific theater a "shrouded war," but not for lack of effort by war journalists.

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The War Beat, Pacific: How the American News Media Went to War Against Japan

by Steven Casey