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Despite this nationwide trend towards restricting offensive and insensitive speech, Harvard has maintained a "centrist" position. Last year, after much debate, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) approved free speech guidelines that would censure, not censor, "hate speech." Protection of the First Amendment remains the primary goal of the University, Harvard adminstrators said...
Appearing on ABC's "Nightline" Wednesday night, Gartner twice mentioned the victim's last name. ABC's policy is not to identify rape victims, said spokesperson Laura Wessner, but the network does not censor the views of those who appear on its live news shows...
...Pentagon has slapped the American press trying to cover the Gulf conflict with a stifling set of restrictions. Only a small pool of journalists have access to most military sites, they can travel only under military escort and the escorts censor all outgoing news dispatches. The White House has also lashed out at journalists who have not transmitted the unadorned Pentagon line to the public. Last week, presidential spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater accused veteran CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, one of a handful of Western correspondents remaining in Baghdad, of being a "conduit" for Iraqi propaganda because he reported that allied warplanes...
...Born on the Fourth of July and Back to the Future? The home of TV heroes Magnum, Columbo, Jim Rockford, Sonny Crockett and even the Beaver? The company that runs the lodgings and jitneys in Yosemite Park? In Hollywood, some moviemakers wondered whether industrialists in Osaka would now censor Hollywood's ideas. Even the Bush Administration raised some objections to the deal...
...minutes earlier, a woman who walked by had said she agreed with our poster. There may be people who want to believe that everyone on campus has to agree with them, but evidently this is not true. Even if it were, they have no right to censor anyone's views, especially not those of a recognized student organization...