Word: censorship
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...boycott has been largely ineffective, but it continues to grow, and the potential of the movement is worrying top executives of sponsoring companies and network officials. Says Alfred Schneider of ABC, the network that the campaign finds most offensive: "If you lose advertisers, that is an indirect form of censorship. When there's a threat of a boycott, there is a chilling effect." Says Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "We believe we are facing a major struggle with these groups over the Bill of Rights." Replies John Hurt, a Tennessee minister who is leading...
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Dershowitz said, "There's no such thing as a little censorship" and added that the choice is between absolute freedom and absolute censorship...
...decree issued last week left no doubt about that goal. It bans all strikes, demonstrations and political meetings and empowers the military authorities to shoot to kill in the pursuit of suspected terrorists. To the shock of Turkey's traditionally free press, the new government imposed strict censorship...
There is good news and bad news in the MacBride recommendations. The good is that the commission members rejected the wilder extremes of the Masmoudi plan. Third World representatives went along with their Western colleagues in declaring that "censorship or arbitrary control of information should be abolished" and that "accurate, faithful and balanced reporting... necessarily involves access to unofficial as well as official sources of information." The only recorded dissent from these ringing endorsements of press freedom was that of the Soviet representative, Sergei Losev, director of TASS...