British Press Bureau (Hansard, 27 August 1914)

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https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1914/aug/27/british-press-bureau

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• Britain's Official Press Bureau controls newspaper coverage of the First World War
• Claim 949: Prime Minister Asquith described the Press Bureau's role to the House of Commons on August 27, 1914.
• Claim 950: Asquith said the Official Press Bureau was the sole channel through which the Admiralty, War Office and other departments made naval and military information public.
• Claim 951: Asquith said the principle governing release of information was that everything that could be given without harming the public interest would be given fully and promptly.
• Claim 952: The government decided not to add trained journalists to the Bureau's own staff, instead associating them with the work of the cable censors.

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