Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gallic Subtlety. Although President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing virtually abolished censorship six months ago, Secretary of State for Culture Michel Guy still has authority to ban anything on stage or screen that goes too far. Guy, however, is more concerned about violence and drugs than explicit sex. If he had been in office at the time, Guy says he might well have banned Stanley Kubrick's chilling A Clockwork Orange, which anyone over 18 could see, while letting Last Tango in Paris sail through. Another branch of government, however, may give the porn purveyors some anxiety...
Knightley's lightly armed narrative charges from the Crimean War, where the modern techniques of reporting and censorship began, to Viet Nam, where television brought packaged blood and flame into the home and censorship was abandoned in favor of a massive public relations campaign to sell the war. Famous locations and faces flash by in Knightley's 120-year extravaganza, but some things never change. In the correspondents' rush to be first with the news, the truth is usually distorted and sometimes sacrificed. Sooner or later, a government official gets around to asking a zealous reporter, "Whose...
...that Davis' boss, William Randolph Hearst, wanted. During the Boer War, the 25-year-old correspondent of London's Morning Post, Winston Churchill, carried a Mauser pistol and played soldier. Twelve years later, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he was part of Britain's censorship and propaganda machine...
...movie. Representatives of CORE who saw it in preview denounced it for trafficking in vicious racial stereotypes, and this anger caused its original distributor, Paramount, to relinquish it gratefully to a smaller, less visible competitor. Once this happened, of course, the film was defended by other black groups charging censorship. They claimed that although Coonskin indeed showed blacks as hookers, hoodlums and con artists, it also showed the principal characters as tough, smart and ultimately victorious over still worse oppressors-mainly, corrupt cops and vile mafiosi...
Whether Correia Jesuino will get a chance to prune Lisbon's press, or impose a censorship plan, is another question. The seven state-owned dailies are believed to be losing both readers and revenues, while Jorno Novo has been gaining circulation, from an initial 40,000 last spring to some 100,000. Raul Rego, whose República was seized by its Communist printers, plans to launch a new Socialist paper next month, aptly named O Luta (The Struggle). By then, however, there may well be a new Premier, and many Portuguese journalists hope that covering the news will...