Word: censorship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thereby a hatred of those feelings in others." As you might expect, the gay community is painfully aware of homophobia when we experience it in discriminatory policies, in rejection by family and friends, in societal assumptions that we are straight, in our exclusion from mainstream culture, in censorship and misrepresentation of our culture, as well as in incidences of anti-gay epithets and violence...
...precise toll exacted by the drug lords is hard to certify: Colombian journalists are also targeted by leftist guerrillas and rightist death squads. In a new report titled "Murder: The Ultimate Censorship," the Inter American Press Association notes, "Nowhere is this struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light more clearly drawn than in Colombia." Some of the country's ablest reporters have fled into exile or gone into hiding, their voices effectively silenced. Others admit their news judgment has been affected...
...believe Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is morally equivalent to South African apartheid. However, my disagreement with others' interpretations of historical events does not give me the right of censorship. Their speech doesn't denigrate me; at most, it makes me uneasy...
...Said Vitali Korotich, editor in chief of the liberal weekly Ogonyok: "Gorbachev is an experienced politician who does things in combinations." Another element in this combination may be a new press law under consideration by the Supreme Soviet. The measure, which has been welcomed by liberals, purports to abolish censorship and provides for creation of independent publications with none of the organizational sponsorship now required...
...film was a tremendous popular success in France and was the source of many official censorship attempts. As a truly French film, it succeeds where its more recent American counterpart fails. It has a subtly alien feel about it, far from the gawdy costumes and self-consciously clever language of the American version. This sense of slightly perverted reality makes it more seductive and, in turn, more than a witty farce. There is a depth to the characters that makes it truly wicked...