Word: censor
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Almost all nations censor reports during war, and many do so in peacetime, either overtly or through surveillance and obstruction of journalistic enterprise. Israel, in fact, has claimed the right to censor stories on security grounds, whether for domestic or foreign audiences, ever since the nation was founded in 1948. But the sudden visibility of Israeli censorship has spurred concern that a generally free nation for the foreign press is becoming a more restrictive...
...same day that ABC'S interview was aired, NBC showed a censored report on civilian casualties in Lebanon, including an innocuous one-sentence comment from Arafat that had won the censor's approval. A few days later, however, the Israelis scissored a report by NBC Correspondent Steve Mallory on civilian casualties in Beirut, taking out shots of an old woman and three girls but leaving in a wounded Palestinian guerrilla. Complains Mallory: "The Israelis have tried to dismiss the existence of a civilian population. Every time we tried to show it, they tried to hide it." Says Paul...
...matters concerning the President's family, the dictatorship the extra-budgetary revenues of the Regie du Tabac [state-controlled tobacco industry] etc. There is recourse to procedures such as warnings and admonitions of increasing severity to journalists, issued by the Ministry of the Interior, there is also prior censor ship, closing of newspapers, threats, assaults and incarcerations...
...comparison, General Electric seems to be concerned not with how much is spent but with what is watched. Thirteen top-of-the-line 1983 GE televisions will include a home censor for parental use. Just punching in a private code and a channel number will keep Junior from leching after Morgan Fairchild. It will, in fact, keep the entire channel off the set for twelve hours. If Junior learns the code, however, he can retaliate by wiping out, say, Little House on the Prairie. This may introduce a whole new version of family feud...
...suffers phobic reactions when he boards the subway to come to work and again when he gets in the city hall elevator. Hynes has applied for a lifetime disability pension of $28,800 annually. Government service has also taken a toll on Richard Sinnott, 55, the former city censor. In charge of issuing permits for rock concerts, Sinnott occasionally took in the acts. The rowdy crowds, he claimed, "instilled a sense of terror throughout my entire body. I was reduced to a shell of myself, barely able to function." His pension request: $21,000 a year...