Accurate News and Information Act

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The Accurate News and Information Act (complete title: An Act to Ensure the Publication of Accurate News and Information) was a statute passed by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada, in 1937, at the instigation of William Aberhart's Social Credit government. It would have required newspapers to print "clarifications" of stories that a committee of Social Credit legislators deemed inaccurate, and to reveal their sources on demand. The act was a result of the stormy relationship between Aberhart and the press, dating to before the 1935 election, in which the Social Credit League was elected to government. Virtually all of Alberta's newspapers—especially the Calgary Herald—were critical of Social Credit, as were a number of publications from elsewhere in Canada. Even the American media had greeted Aberhart's election with derision. Though the bill won easy passage through the Social Credit-dominated legislative assembly, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, John C. Bowen… Read by S_Whistler. Recorded March 14, 2012; the article may have changed since. The article as it stood when recorded: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=481861587 Article today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accurate_News_and_Information_Act Original recording: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Accurate_News_and_Information_Act.ogg License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0). This episode is a format-shifted (MP3) copy redistributed under the same license. This show is an independent community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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