U.S. Censorship, Violence, and Moral Judgement in a Wartime Democracy, 1941-1945.

The article discusses the history of U.S. censorship, violence and moral judgement in a wartime democracy from 1941 through 1945. It reexamines war censorship to rethink the relationship between liberal democracy in the U.S. and international violence. It attempts to make three related arguments on military press censorship, that censors actively encouraged analogous textual reporting, and that censors and journalists both shared a language of realism and toughness while demanding the public to confront the negative aspects of internationalism as a duty of citizenship.