[sswaner]

I don't have a ready source, but the press in the US would usually comply with a request to censor news that some in government worried would lead to panic, blame, or accountability. Continued well into the 60's and 70's, and still present today.

The latest edition of Ronan Farrow's Catch and Kill podcast describes how NBC agreed to censor his story on Harvey Weinstein. [https://podtail.com/podcast/the-catch-and-kill-podcast/episo...]

[iguy]

But IIRC there were dramatically more strict restrictions during WWI. Certainly in all the european countries busy fighting. (Famously, Bertrand Russell got himself locked up for six months for giving a lecture about whether the US should enter the war.)