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REFERENCE has been made in these columns, in connexion with the recent report of the Royal Commission on the Press, to the failure of the British Press to report adequately on topics of great importance, a failure for which the Government is in part to blame by the severe rationing of newsprint (see Nature, August 12 p. 247). At the same time it was pointed out that the inadequate coverage of news may be the first steps towards actual suppression of the truth by some authority— private, public or otherwise— , and that if civil liberties are being endangered, the Press must have the available space, and must use it, to direct attention to the threat in question.
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Science and the Press. Nature 164, 331–332 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164331a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164331a0