When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
Kate AdieAbout author
- Author's profession: Journalist
- Nationality: british
- Born: September 19, 1945
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