Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college newspapers by regents and administrators over the past five years provide a frighteningly vivid picture of what a government-controlled or government-pressured press would become. At several major universities--Berkeley, the University of Texas, the University of Florida--and at countless smaller institutions, regents have imposed strict censorship over college newspapers, using financial control of the papers' operations to exact editorial compromises. At Berkeley, the California regents cracked down when The Daily Californian endorsed a political rally which evolved into a small-scale riot; at Texas, the regents--who had never been fond of The Daily Texan...
...public figure, we could not in good faith ignore the fact that he had left the team in mid-season. In the same response we said, "If we had decided not to print the whole story, we would have engaged in a subtle and dangerous form of self-censorship." This is the principle by which we operate. We cannot suppress news that is pertinant to the Harvard athletic community, especially if that news is already circulating in rumor form. It is our aim and it is our duty to clarify rumors and to follow them up to the best...
...already public sources of information has always existed. The panic is misleading because the government's ability to wiretap, to classify documents over-zealously, and to regulate the electronic media through licensing investigations pose more immediate threats to the public's access to information. No one is advocating outright censorship or the licensing of newspapers. The pressures confronting the press are less direct, if not less dangerous...
...decided not to print the whole story, we would have engaged in a subtle and dangerous form of self-censorship and only allowed the rumors to continue. Instead, we decided not to withhold information from our readers and left no more room for rumors...
...Minh (top two) and Ngo Dinh Diem. When a military coup felled Diem in 1963, Murray Gart, now chief of correspondents, watched some of the action from a Saigon rooftop. There was only one central cable office in Saigon then, and to avoid delay and censorship, Gart flew to Bangkok to file material for a cover story...