Word: censorship
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SOME MIGHT shout censorship. But would the elimination of the bell-ringing be an instance of a community rising up against art, as North Carolina Sen. Jesse A. Helms rises up against nearly everything? Some may wonder: What will be targeted next, the mural in Leverett House dining hall...
Anderson covered a medley of topics ranging from Czechoslovakian cave writings and a new theme park in Barcelona she is designing with Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel to the Kennedy-Smith rape trial. Throughout Voices From the Beyond, however, she emphasized and repeatedly investigated ambitious topics of art, censorship, freedom and power. The Persian Gulf War and U.S. politics were the focus of her concern...
Charren insists ACT is vehemently opposed to censorship, despite its attacks on television network programming...
Charren had an impact, not just because of the causes she championed but because of the ones she didn't. Despite her concern for children, she refused to ally herself with conservative groups fighting to purge TV of excessive sex and violence. "I believe that censorship is worse than any kind of junk on TV," she maintained. Her primary thrust was not for quality (that overused term) so much as for diversity: to give parents and kids more choice. Children's TV may still be a long way from her goal, but it is a lot closer than it would...
...American courtrooms must be reexamined. Is it a good thing that a woman who claimed that she was raped had her blacked out face broadcast by every media outlet from CNN to Saturday Night Live? If not, is it a necessary evil, the only alternative to which is government censorship...