Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distressed to read of the efforts of the Foundation to Improve Television to limit the content, through Federal court action, of programs seen on television before 10 p. m. Like all sincere efforts to protect others through censorship, the supporters of the Foundation would make all persons subsist on the fare of what is thought safe for those to be protected (they single out children; others single out the mentally ill or the potentially dangerous). Whether such protective efforts are directed toward violence. toward erotic materials, toward satiric portrayals of the church or the government or whatever, these efforts augur...
Each person to accept as his unavoidable duty educating himself and others about the scope of the governments crimes in Asia. Everyone who opposes the war should learn as much as possible about it and should demand that our newspapers and broadcasting networks end their self-imposed censorship on the government's actions in Southeast Asia...
...brings up all the problems of censorship-do we have the right to regulate what people see on television," Kagan said. "We are hoping that they [the station and the program's sponsors] will say, 'the hell with it' and put on another show in its place...
...reaction to setbacks is not out of the realm of possibility for our President. The man who tearfully blamed his 1962 defeat on the media can be expected to do the same in 1970. From him, we can expect increased attacks on the media, more attempts at Administration-imposed censorship, and tighter government secrecy. The next invasion of Cambodia, for example, will most likely not be announced on television, but rather carried out as a clandestine mission with newsmen barred from observation...
...dollars? Rather let that money be spent to hire more policemen to patrol our streets, not our bookstores, and to pay the police a salary commensurate with the danger and difficulty of their work. This would do more to prevent sex crimes than all the censorship laws on the books...