Word: censorship
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...Press censorship has relaxed to the point where Solidarity publishes its own newspaper, and even the official party paper, Trybuna Ludu, reflects a greater degree of objectivity. People in general enjoy more freedom of expression and movement than at any time since the Communist takeover...
There is reason to doubt that such a boycott could succeed. But the would-be censors appear to be winning the war before the battle begins. Already the networks are sounding defensive, warning that if sex is successfully restrained, censorship of news and opinion will follow. Civil libertarians are readying a $2 million countercampaign in support of diversity, called People for the American Way and featuring TV public-service ads produced by Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family. (Moral Majority has announced that Falwell will demand reply time whenever a Lear ad appears.) Most important, advertisers are uneasy...
...Television, which has successfully lobbied for better juvenile programming. Her group opposes the coalition's crusade, she says, "because ACT believes that the Moral Majority is not out to improve children's television but rather is out to control communications in this country" by narrowing choices through censorship...
...said publishers' lists of unacceptable "sexist" terms were part of a 'ruthless Gestapo-like" censorship movement, but later defended her participation in the campaign to end violence and sex on television as an exercise of her First Amendment rights...
...textile center of Lodz declared a strike alert over the firing of five hospital employees. On Saturday, Lodz union officials scheduled a series of warning strikes for this week unless the five are rehired. The Solidarity chapter in Plock, meanwhile, prepared to issue a strike alert to protest censorship of their local union bulletin; entreaties from Warsaw union leaders, however, convinced them to hold...