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OPPONENTS OF THE PROPOSAL concede that there is an imbalance in "world information" as seems evident, but they doubt the intentions of new order proponents. Why? The media-control plan would legitimize government censorship and control over the news, as well as permit the expulsion or restrict the entry of Western journalists who report "embarrassing" or otherwise "inconvenient" facts...
...SUMMER for journalism After being virtually shut out of the war in the Falklands because of geography and censorship, the industry went out of control when the Israel is invaded Lebanon Reports preposterous beyond belief came back in torrents. The Nazi blitzkrieg had nothing on the unfortunately named Operation Peace for the Galilee. Within no time, the Israelis had slaughtered a sizable percentage of the inhabitants of sunny southern Lebanon, and if you could believe many of the most respected news mongers in the world, as well as some world leaders and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
This criticism of government officials is a new movement in the Chinese press, since the Chinese government began to relax its censorship. Zou claims that the Central Broadcasting Station she once worked for now criticizes government officials as high as ministers and even the vice-premier, but this is unusual, Zou admits. "You still have to have courage, much courage...
...several states, NCPAC commercials were kept off the air by victims' complaints that they were misleading or outright false, prompting NCPAC to file a federal suit charging censorship. Democratic Senator John Melcher, a veterinarian, countered a New Right commercial claiming he was "too liberal for Montana" with a TV ad of his own featuring cows. After a shot of "out-of-staters" carrying a briefcase full of money off a plane, one bemused bovine remarks, "Did ya hear about those city slickers bad-mouthing Doc Melcher? One of 'em was stepping in what they've been trying...
...remarks by latti Megged appear in the Oct. 9. 1982 issue of The Nation. They deal with Israeli censorship on the West Bank. Their implications are appropriate elsewhere Megged concluded his article with an appeal. Those concerned with freedom of expression, with "the right of people to control their culture and education, about the dignity of human beings, should start here with the issue of censorship. This should be the first commitment of intellectuals and writers." Prof. Irene L. Gendzier Boston University