Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general warrant to act as thought police." The lesson was lost on the majority of Brennan's Supreme Court colleagues, who last week effectively deputized the nation's high school administrators to quash the expression of whatever opinions they deem objectionable. The opinion may well be used to justify censorship of student newspapers and journals in state universities. It mocks--or perhaps reveals--what passes for the nation's historic commitment to free speech...
...clearing the way for school officials to protect the privacy and reputations of those who might be harmed by overzealous student investigators or polemicists, the court erected no safeguards against excesses that might constitute censorship of the most capricious kind. What are "legitimate pedagogical concerns" if not any concerns some school official decides to be legitimate and pedagogical? How far may principals go in remaking high schools according to their personal ideals? According to Justice White's majority opinion, views officials might censor include any that might "associate the school with any position other than neutrality on matters of public...
...accepting funding from the CIA, Harvard is not risking its academic freedom through association with a secret and covert wing of government. The contract has been checked and double-checked to ensure that the University's rules--the strictest in academia--forbidding censorship and requiring the publication of all results are preserved. "The contract has no leaks," said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck, a national authority on academic freedom and the problems of government secrecy...
Standards and practices. It is the TV networks' courtly euphemism for their censorship departments. But it is a dafter delusion, on Broadcast Row or Wall Street or Pennsylvania Avenue or any other center of American power these days, to think that old-fashioned moral standards have much to do with today's lean, mean, rapier-clean business practices. Does a news organization, like the one in Broadcast News, employ too many talented men and women to keep its profits proud and its corporate raiders on hold? Then it will package the old reliables and promote the young presentables -- including...
...insurance scandal demanded to see film of a show NBC was preparing on the case, arguing that it might inflame public opinion and jeopardize his chances of parole. A lower court ordered NBC to surrender the film, but Kennedy struck down the ruling as being "aimed toward prepublication censorship." Said the judge: "It is a fundamental principle of the First Amendment that the press may not be required to justify or defend what it prints or says until after the expression has taken place...