Word: censor
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...album, That What Is Not, is a tribute to the diversity and talent of the members of the band. Each song features the work of each member in turn. The album begins with the song "Acid Drops," which peaks with the repeated line "who censors the censor, can I do that myself; make up my own mind like anyone else...
...will indeed affect how people vote. And if people wish to vote against a candidate because he has cheated on his wife (even if his wife doesn't care and is, in fact, part of the conspiracy of silence), the press should not be in the business of playing censor and denying them information for fear they'll misuse...
Free press means that no government censor blacks out what the papers print or the networks broadcast. It does not mean that journalists have carte blanche to impose themselves and their equipment wherever they choose. No one has the right to install a camera in your bathroom for example...
...Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School is a public place, and free press doesn't mean that Channel 5 can demand to broadcast geometry classes. News crews could claim, plausibly, that unwatched teachers gets away with sloppy teaching and that public interest requires press coverage. No government official will censor a story about poor math instruction in Massachusetts high schools. But nobody expects 15-year olds to concentrate on trapezoids while the cameras roll. And free press does not confer the right to try to make them...
However, he said, statements made "in a more general way" fall into the realm of freedom of expression and thus must be protected, even if they are offensive to some members of the community. To attempt to censor such speech, Rudenstine said, would be "totally inappropriate...