Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...month) have watched their real purchasing power shrink by about 50% over the last ten years. Then, too, Medici has yet to make good on his early talk of "free universities, free political parties, free unions and freedom of the press." Newspapers still squirm under requirements for rigid self-censorship, and even nonradical students tend to be alienated by the generals' power to fire offending professors at will. Under pressure from hard-liners in the military, the President has backed away from a promise to give up his dictatorial powers and leave "democracy definitely installed" by the time...
...Censorship of the press has been heavy and absolute. If any newspaper strays from the party line, the editors are tried or else the government makes sure that the paper no longer has the supplies it needs to continue publication. A few days ago, the junta issued an edict which imposes a three-year jail sentence and a $6500 fine for any Greek journalist, whether he writes for Greek or foreign papers, who "spreads false rumors...
...distressed to read of the efforts of the Foundation to Improve Television to limit the content, through Federal court action, of programs seen on television before 10 p. m. Like all sincere efforts to protect others through censorship, the supporters of the Foundation would make all persons subsist on the fare of what is thought safe for those to be protected (they single out children; others single out the mentally ill or the potentially dangerous). Whether such protective efforts are directed toward violence. toward erotic materials, toward satiric portrayals of the church or the government or whatever, these efforts augur...
...their knowledge, whereas the motives of others are lower and they are wrong in their attempts. But in my opinion, those who would censor for the best of motives have about the same effect as those who would censor for the worst of motives, for both invite further censorship; both suggest that the government ought to make for individuals the choice of what they see or read or hear; and in so doing, both, it seems to me, erode that freedom which is ultimately more important than eliminating, through government action, portrayals of the aspect of life they find offensive...
...others read or see or hear. The solution, however, is not government action but social action and concerted efforts on their part to provide alternatives to what they now deplore. I would hope that individuals who prize freedom would address themselves to this important issue of choice vs. censorship and reconsider their support of the court action...