Word: censor
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...beam them down to the public. The objective is a double dose of control: the state will be the monopoly provider of satellite television broadcasting on the mainland, and foreign networks will have to pay to get their signals into China. In addition, authorities will be able to censor foreign satellite broadcasts with a simple push of a button. "It's one way to control foreign satellite broadcasts, but it also has all kinds of economic advantages," says Jeanette Chan, a Hong Kong-based broadcast attorney. Says a top executive at one leading foreign broadcast channel: "It's the ultimate...
...person, Lucinda, who's now 48, doesn't censor herself. She's without guile, and she suffers from that sometimes because people don't know what to make of someone so forthright. They feel as if they want to protect her. But she is a real survivor, and the key to her success as an artist is that she has managed to survive without putting the armor...
...night "Family" went on the air in January 1971, a nervous CBS posted extra operators on its switchboards to handle the calls of protest. An outvoted censor prepared to say "I told you so," and several programming executives felt premonitions of the guillotine tingling at the backs of their necks. The network did not know whether the show would be a scandal or a flop. It was neither, of course, but instead a piece of instant American folklore...
...brainchild of an unlikely rebel: soft-spoken, 24-year-old computer consultant Hiroyuki Nishimura. Free to users, the site pulls in a mere $25,000 or so a month in advertising. "I wanted to provide space for people to discuss their interests," he says, adding that he doesn't censor a word. "Helpful or harmful, information is information," he says. "It's not up to us to question the impact or consequences." Nishimura may be forced to tighten up, however. In March, Nippon Life Insurance asked the court to order Channel 2 to delete entries that appeared to slander...
...just trying to talk to the University to figure out what type of actions can be taken," Williams said. "You can't fire [Mansfield] and you can't completely censor him, but is there any effective way of letting him know that these statements cannot be made...