Word: censorship
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...press was among the first to benefit when freedom came to East Germany. Censorship fell with the Wall. Hard-line editors retired or were fired. The dull, gray Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland, so lickspittle that it once published 26 photos of Erich Honecker in a single edition, lightened up with a fresh design and uncensored stories. The daily Berliner Zeitung shed its communist ties and became East Berlin's liveliest and most popular newspaper. Junge Welt, once a loyal youth tabloid, turned muckraker overnight...
...advocates who claim that conservative assaults constitute censorship of free speech are both wrong and right. They are wrong because Government refusal to pay for a work of art is not censorship but a withdrawal of favor: the artist is still free to do whatever he/she wants, only not on public money...
...were "fulfilling their international duty." The invasion had begun. The hopes inspired by the Prague Spring collapsed. And "real socialism" displayed its true colors, its stagnation, its inability to tolerate pluralistic or democratic tendencies, not just in the Soviet Union but even in neighboring countries. The abolition of censorship and free elections were regarded as too risky and contagious...
...American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., has campaigned to get stores to remove Playboy, Penthouse and similar magazines from their shelves. Last week the 1,300-store Waldenbooks chain, the nation's largest, launched a counterattack in the form of full-page ads in 32 U.S. newspapers, denouncing "censorship efforts" and "an increasing pattern of intolerance...
Books were hot stuff 30 years ago, when Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tropic of Cancer broke censorship barriers and hit the best-seller lists. At the same time, Lenny Bruce set the four-letter standard for comics, and in the '70s Pryor and George Carlin brought it to the masses, where it belonged. Midnight Cowboy, which won an Oscar for best picture of 1969, was rated X, and so were other lauded films, such as Medium Cool, Performance and The Devils. Explicit lyrics have been in the pop mainstream since the late '60s; the Jefferson Airplane sang "Up against...