Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students protested McKnight's expulsion, claiming that the administration was trying to censor The Hilltop...
...Maciej and Ewa, 32, a feature writer for the respected weekly Kultura, had already decided that they were no longer interested in being journalists in Poland. Both of them had worked through the 1970s writing pieces filled with allusions and double meanings, trying to slip some truth past the censor. The 16 months of Solidarity's existence had been an exhilirating journalistic experience. Says Maciej: "It's hard for me to imagine working again like before August...
...inclusion of a clause that says, "The international community cannot ignore the problem of the content of messages which are potentially of the gravest significance for the future development of peoples and indeed of all mankind." Western delegates fear Soviet and developing countries will use the clause to censor or otherwise constrain Western reporters. Foreign correspondents potentially could be forced to choose between abiding by the rules or abandoning coverage altogether...
...pressure that must be exerted to finish the job. And so he drives the laborers beyond their endurance. He steals food, then rations it. He intercepts calls and news from home "for their own good." He quarantines them from entertainment, and even from attending church. It takes no Soviet censor to find a political metaphor here: Nowak is the Polish statesman-Gierek or Kania or Jaruzelski-who must act the ruthless boss to satisfy his own ruthless boss. It is difficult, it is wrong, but it must be done to survive. Thus does the liberal turn totalitarian...
...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...