Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young suggested that the Supreme Court might "clarify" the Constitution's First Amendment to inhibit newspapers and television from "creating a climate of violence." Although he later backed away from the idea and admitted that he was "reacting rather emotionally," Young appeared to have been advocating press censorship...
...newspapermen, however, have suggested such a delay, for they believe a blackout would generate wild rumors. So would legal censorship, which both newsmen and experts on violence argue is the worst possible solution. "Had the media tried to suppress the story of the hostages in Washington," argues Elie Abel, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, "the danger to the public could have been greater. There was evidence of trouble, and if nothing had appeared in the news, panic would have developed." Says Richard Simon, formerly of the Los Angeles police: "If the truth is not good...
...past year Harvard College has witnessed new pressures to restrict freedom of speech. Some elements among Jews here seem bent upon keeping Christian militants like the Moonies from distributing their wares; and certain sections of black militants would apply full censorship to the Lampoon's right to decide the form and substance of its humor. Both of these groups have also sought to maneuver the office of Harvard's undergraduate deans behind their anti-freedom pressures--a distressing development indeed...
...conditions back of conditions" would seem to imply a political perspective. And it often did: some of the Living Newspaper plays provoked controversy for their political content, and an official of the theatre group resigned in protest over a censorship dispute...
...massacre at Varilla two months ago was not unique, according to a pastoral letter by Nicaragua's Roman Catholic bishops. The letter, which has not been published because of government censorship, was read from pulpits in January. It accuses President Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Debayle's National Guard of subjecting innocent peasants to "inhuman" abuse "ranging from torture and rape to summary execution" during the government's two-year drive against leftist guerrillas. The bishops buttressed their charges with testimony from rural missionaries-who claim that dead and kidnaped campesinos number in the hundreds...