Word: censorable
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...writing and put away their notebooks. The reporters were obeying a savage gag rule imposed on them last week by the government in a drastic effort to tighten India's month-old press control in time for the special parliamentary session. In effect, the rule forced newsmen to censor themselves...
...either lying or submitting to their rules for bad journalism." A few reporters from United Press International, Associated Press, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, ABC and NBC indicated that they were under orders from home to sign, if necessary, in order to stay on. However, most protested to Chief Censor Harry D'Penha. Replied D'Penha with Alice in Wonderland logic: "It's not witch hunting. We are trying to establish a basis of confidence...
Those and other items of Kissingeriana were circulating in Israel last week in the wake of a controversy over a new book that was banned by the military censor on orders from Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin not only ordered suppression of the book, which was written by Newsman Matti Golan, 38, but also the seizure of all five manuscript copies known to exist. Rabin's explanation was that publication of the book would be disastrous for Israeli-American relations, would threaten the flow of American arms to Israel and might even force Kissinger's resignation...
Rabin already had the power, carried over by Israel from the British Mandate in Palestine, to censor the book. But he also successfully sought from the Knesset additional authority in this case to investigate the source of leaks harmful to the state. Two weeks ago he summoned Israeli newspaper editors and demanded their "cooperation" in keeping the incident quiet. Nevertheless, leaked details spread by word of mouth until the government was finally forced to make the story-but not the book-public...
...torn between giving way to their creative instincts and submitting to the demands of producers, and viewers, since in the last instance, the very existence of film depends on its box office success. The situation is different with a nationalized film industry as in Czechoslovakia, where the previewer (the censor) and the producer are the same person, i.e. the Party establishment. This also explains why directors in Czechoslovakia were almost forced to become involved in politics since their chances of making films depended so much on political conditions. But Liehm's book is not a long and dreary story...