Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several said that their refusal was based on doubts about Scanlan's financial situation, but Dun & Bradstreet says that the magazine's latest net worth is $497,976. Scanlan's Editor Sidney E. Zion says that the refusal is an inexcusable act of censorship by the printers. The magazine finally found a printer in Canada, which was understandably reluctant to encourage bombers. Montreal police seized some 100,000 copies on the technicality that the necessary permit had not been obtained. Last week, while Scanlan's lawyer Israel Schawartzberg was rounding up the necessary signatures, he died...
...month) have watched their real purchasing power shrink by about 50% over the last ten years. Then, too, Medici has yet to make good on his early talk of "free universities, free political parties, free unions and freedom of the press." Newspapers still squirm under requirements for rigid self-censorship, and even nonradical students tend to be alienated by the generals' power to fire offending professors at will. Under pressure from hard-liners in the military, the President has backed away from a promise to give up his dictatorial powers and leave "democracy definitely installed" by the time...
...Censorship of the press has been heavy and absolute. If any newspaper strays from the party line, the editors are tried or else the government makes sure that the paper no longer has the supplies it needs to continue publication. A few days ago, the junta issued an edict which imposes a three-year jail sentence and a $6500 fine for any Greek journalist, whether he writes for Greek or foreign papers, who "spreads false rumors...
...their knowledge, whereas the motives of others are lower and they are wrong in their attempts. But in my opinion, those who would censor for the best of motives have about the same effect as those who would censor for the worst of motives, for both invite further censorship; both suggest that the government ought to make for individuals the choice of what they see or read or hear; and in so doing, both, it seems to me, erode that freedom which is ultimately more important than eliminating, through government action, portrayals of the aspect of life they find offensive...
...others read or see or hear. The solution, however, is not government action but social action and concerted efforts on their part to provide alternatives to what they now deplore. I would hope that individuals who prize freedom would address themselves to this important issue of choice vs. censorship and reconsider their support of the court action...