Sometimes I think we're living in a time of unprecedented distortion of the media by the military and the U.S. government. But 59 years ago, when we dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, things were much the same. In The Legacy of Hiroshima: How the Press Was Spun, Greg Mitchell looks at General MacArthur's censorship efforts.
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