Word: censorable
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...office in Japan's Radio Tokyo building last week, the U.S. Army set up a new bureau to deal with military security. Its name: Press Advisory Division. Its function: to censor all military dispatches and photos from the war area. General MacArthur's headquarters, which has been reluctant to establish censorship, still insisted it had not done so; it had merely established an "advance security check." But all correspondents were ordered to submit dispatches to the bureau before sending them. Since the Army does not control outgoing radio and cable channels, it is still possible for correspondents...
...show the British film version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, which has been awaiting U.S. release for two years (TIME, Dec. 4). On protests from Jewish groups that the movie's faithful portrayal of Fagin was a slur on Jews, Joseph Breen, Hollywood's own unofficial censor, had denied the picture a seal of approval. The film's U.S. distributor, Eagle Lion Classics, appealed for a reversal by the Motion Picture Association of America...
...CRIMSON feels that Radcliffe has presumed a responsibility for news which can rightly lie only with a newspaper. The CRIMSON believes that if Radcliffe allows itself to take disciplinary action because of an inaccurate story, it is giving itself the right to censor stories to avoid "misrepresentation of Radcliffe policy" and by necessary extension this carries with it at least the threat of censorship to avoid publication of stories which Radcliffe would prefer not to be published. This threat of censorship is an inevitable consequence of application of college rules, disciplinary action, and finally probation in a case where...
...question is not whether Radcliffe has the "right" to do what it has done--and what it has done is clearly to assume authority to censor the news--but whether, according to the objectives of a liberal educational institution in a democratic society, it ought to have done it. My own opinion is that the protection of Radcliffe's good name is no justification for censorship, and that inaccuracy and lack of ethics, if they existed, should have been dealt with in any of a number of ways short of censorship. If more discussions were on this point, instead...
...American government can't censor the press; it can't tell reporters what they may print and what they may not. The Radcliffe government can and does...