Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your reasoning. You stated that no group "has the right to use their personal judgments as a standard for what the public should or should not see. Such biased 'purification' of the public media in the guise of public protection has been identified with every dictatorship." The state censors are a group; a state censor, I assume, is as biased as anyone else; the state censors use their personal judgments as a standard for what the public should or should not see. It follows that we should abolish state censorship. But you seem to approve of the New York Supreme...
...World War II, correspondents were already finding ways of satisfying the censor's rule book and still getting their news out. For example, Reuters' Alex Valentine wrote a story mentioning Brigadier Tom Brodie, commander of Britain's 29th Brigade. When the censor struck out Brodie's name and nationality, Valentine described him as "a United Nations brigadier wearing a British military overcoat," and the censor passed...
...office in Japan's Radio Tokyo building last week, the U.S. Army set up a new bureau to deal with military security. Its name: Press Advisory Division. Its function: to censor all military dispatches and photos from the war area. General MacArthur's headquarters, which has been reluctant to establish censorship, still insisted it had not done so; it had merely established an "advance security check." But all correspondents were ordered to submit dispatches to the bureau before sending them. Since the Army does not control outgoing radio and cable channels, it is still possible for correspondents...
...show the British film version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which has been awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...CRIMSON feels that Radcliffe has presumed a responsibility for news which can rightly lie only with a newspaper. The CRIMSON believes that if Radcliffe allows itself to take disciplinary action because of an inaccurate story, it is giving itself the right to censor stories to avoid "misrepresentation of Radcliffe policy" and by necessary extension this carries with it at least the threat of censorship to avoid publication of stories which Radcliffe would prefer not to be published. This threat of censorship is an inevitable consequence of application of college rules, disciplinary action, and finally probation in a case where...