Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earth Day began last night as students packed Sanders Theatre to hear seven panelists, including Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, discuss the environmental crisis. The discussion, sponsored by the Harvard Ecology Coalition, was broadcast live outside of Boston over National Educational Television...
...censorship law aimed mainly at pornography and obscenity, under which 5,000 copies of the February Playboy were impounded for three weeks before being released for sale in opaque plastic wrappers. Political censorship is somewhat more subtle. By telephone or personal visits, Brazilian army officers tell publishers and broadcast executives which subjects are taboo. The latest taboo is any mention of the torture methods that are blatantly used by police and military against political prisoners. In Paraguay, Panama, Haiti and Cuba, the rules are simpler still. No opposition newspaper is allowed, and all papers are subject to seizure...
...purpose of diversifying editorial voices in the nation. In some areas, the economics of one-building ownership keep a marginal paper in business or allow for a more forceful joint news operation. The issue is packed with legal and economic complexities. FCC proposals are frequently emasculated by broadcast-industry lobbyists and their friends in Congress, and those that survive to become regulations are subject to judicial review...
Wherever he may travel during the week, however, Jackson inevitably returns to Chicago for the one big showpiece effort that keeps Breadbasket spiritually together: a three-hour Saturday morning meeting (90 minutes of it broadcast locally by radio) in which black ministers mingle with black businessmen, tough youth-gang leaders sit beside aspiring politicians, and some 5,000 of Jackson's fans shout their "Right on, Jesse!" and "Tell it, brother!" as he pitches for the current Breadbasket programs. He calls it "hustling time," and he sells pride as well as products. "I am somebody," he chants. "I am somebody...
...subpoenaed by lawyers. It is tougher still to be a black newsman. On assignments, and sometimes in his own office, he is mistaken for a messenger boy, a janitor, an agitator. At press conferences, he will be the only reporter asked to establish his credentials. If he is a broadcast newsman, sources will look right through him and talk to his white cameraman or sound engineer...