Word: censorable
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MacArthur, in his time, was rather lucky that the American public was so squarely behind the war, and that the law of the land gave him the authority to censor the news media as he pleased. Now, with the American populace enjoying the carnival-like violence emanating from a far-off place—and with a slate of Democratic hopefuls egging them on—an otherwise normal postwar reconstruction has turned into a bloody hell...
...Safran agreed to a $107,430 book contract with the CIA that granted the agency the right to censor the book and required that Safran not reveal the CIA funding...
...Wall movement) and 1989 (the Tiananmen Square massacre), while Jiang Zemin failed in 1999 against the meditation group Falun Gong. Another litmus test is the Party's relationship with the media. Now that public opinion has swung in Hu's favor, he could consolidate his power by loosening the censor's steely grip. This could give him leverage to fight bureaucratic resistance to needed institutional reforms. The option is there, but Hu hasn't taken...
...February panel entitled “The State v. The Academy,” Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health Barry R. Bloom decried new restrictions on scientific research and criticized the decision of 32 peer-review journals to self-censor under the mounting pressure of national security concerns...
Chen Kaige does too. After many rigorous films, many fights with the censor board, he is entitled to pull a few plot strings, to pluck a few heartstrings--to make a film that wants to be liked. And isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love? --By Richard Corliss