Word: censorable
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When a newspaper rejects advertisements it finds offensive or exploitative, it acts as a censor and constricts the flow of information. Instead of stimulating discussion, the newspaper quashes debate by limiting advertising space to approved customers...
...captives were allowed only heavily censored accounts of what was going on in the outside world. Stories about Iran and their plight were torn out of magazines, including TIME and Newsweek, that were circulated to the prisoners, but the guards did not censor the tables of contents, so the hostages could tell what stories were missing. Petty indignities continued to the very end. Richard Ode, at 64 the oldest hostage, had his shoes taken away the day he was captured. He shuffled about barefoot or in socks until he was about to board the plane taking him to freedom...
Americans are in no danger of being pushed back to the prudery of the 19th century. The typical U.S. newsstand, with its sappy pornutopian reek, is proof enough of that, without even considering prime-time TV. But the latter-day inflamed censor is no laughing matter. One unsettling feature of the current censorial vigilantism is its signs of ugly inflammation. There is, for instance, the cheerily incendiary attitude expressed by the Rev. George A. Zarris, chairman of the Moral Majority in Illinois. Says Zarris: "I would think moral-minded people might object to books that are philosophically alien to what...
...interesting question. It baldly reveals the ultimate purpose of all censorship -mind control- just as surely as the burning of books dramatizes a yearning latent in every consecrated censor. The time could not be better for recalling something Henry Seidel Canby wrote after Big Bill Thompson put Arthur Schlesinger to the flame. Said Canby: "There will always be a mob with a torch ready when someone cries, 'Burn those books!' " The real bottom line is: How many more times is he going to be proved right...
...boycott, there is a chilling effect." Says Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "We believe we are facing a major struggle with these groups over the Bill of Rights." Replies John Hurt, a Tennessee minister who is leading the crusade: "We are not trying to censor anybody at all. We are not trying to say you have to follow our moral judgment. What we are saying is that we don't like this material and we have no obligation...