In the American centers, residents had access to myriad sources of accurate information. From the outset, Milton Eisenhower intended that the Nikkei should have their own newspapers, and these were established everywhere. Critics have called them censored, but that is a stretch. Harold Jacoby, who knew the Tule Lake administrators personally, said that he knew of no instance in which a newspaper edition was submitted to the camp authorities before publication, nor an instance when an editorial or article was “planned for publication.” Nobody in the press ever has absolute freedom, but this view was closer to the reality of center papers. Center editors Tomoye Takahashi, Bill Hosokawa, Harumi Kawahara, Paul Tokota, and Barry Saiki discussed a wide variety of controversial issues. In short, the camp newspapers criticized anything that they thought needed it, the U. S. government, their political opponents, each other, the WRA, the San Francisco government, the Dies Committee, supposed California racists, politicians like Earl Warren, and constitutional and political decisions affecting the Nikkei. The only two issues that passed largely unreported were town, state, and national politics and the war itself.