“Doctored” News For Czechs
(Rec. H a.m.) GENEVA,,ApriI 2. The British delegate to the United Nations’ Freedom of lhe Press Conference, Dlr Murray Watson, read to a conference committee a British Foreign Office report, stating that all news irom foreign sources to Czechoslovakia now passed through the official Czech press agency, which had suppressed material it thought unfavourable to Czechoslovakia. The report added that the agency frequently “doctored’' the. news from western agencies and published it as from another source. The political head of the agency’s news department, whose presence had long been a guarantee of fair news distribution, has been replaced by a Communist chief. The editors of five Prague dailies have also been removed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1948, Page 5
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