How to perform research on the WEB

CTEC 115  Fall 2012  Clark

How to perform research on the WEB

Topic:    Censorship

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)

I used Google to search for the library at Clark College and from there entered the articles and databases tab to find GVRL. The first 20 results out of 1514 came up.  I am interested in Military history, so I kind of homed in on this reference.  It is interesting that this book is part of a 10 volume set that, combined, has a total of 5539 pages.  If I was to actually write a paper on this subject, this book has given me a lot of ideas and references to pursue.

I have taken the following ideas, keywords, citations and further research possibilities directly from the article and have not changed the text or format.  As this is strictly for research ideas and sources, I am not committing plagiarism as I am not trying to pass this information off as my own and I have included the citation for the book where I got all of this information.

Keywords and ideas:

By country, culture, time in history, religious, governmental, movies, speech, written, photographic, artistic, sexual, legalities, within corporations, gender specific, race specific

‘During World War I the government maintained strict control of transatlantic communications, including cable lines and mail. Media reports were subject to the Committee on Public Information's "voluntary" censor-ship regulations and the 1918 Espionage Act's restrictions seeking to limit antiwar or pro-German sentiment. With U.S. entry into World War II, the government established the Office of Censorship in mid-December 1941. The Office of Censorship implemented the most severe wartime restrictions of the press in the nation's history, reviewing all mail and incoming field dispatches, prohibiting pictures of American casualties, and censoring information for purposes of "national security."’

               

‘The military's daily briefings on Vietnam (derisively dubbed the "five o'clock follies") seemed overly optimistic and contradictory to field reports. Television broadcast the graphic conduct of the war directly into America's living rooms and exposed muddled U.S. policies in Vietnam. Thus, the "credibility gap" grew between the government and the public’

Other possible resources cited within this book and it’s Bibliography:
Denton, Robert E, Jr. The Media and the Persian Gulf War. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993.
Hallin, Daniel C. The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Knightly, Philip. The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
Vaughn, Stephen. Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Sweeney, Michael S. Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

These are other articles within the Dictionary set:

Censorship     press and artistic,   2: 83–86

Civil War, censorship during,        2: 83  2: 84    6: 97

Colonial era      censorship in,      2: 83

Espionage Act (1917), and censorship,  2: 83 2: 84

Grenada, invasion of, press blackout during,  2: 83

Press      censorship of,                2: 83–84

Revolution, American, censorship during, 2: 83

Spanish-American War, censorship during, 2: 83

World War I, censorship during,   2: 83   2: 84

World War II, censorship during,  2: 83  2: 84

Citation info:

Censorship, Military

Dictionary of American History

Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. Vol. 2. 3^rd ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. p83. Derek W. Frisby

Page 83

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