Word: censorship
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Sometimes, as in the case of Janet Flanner, this urge to self-censorship makes for a rather opaque style of revelation. Writing for a half-century under the pen-name of "Genet" for The New Yorker, Flanner generally focused her discriminating eye upon the social and artistic elite of Europe. Her work often recalls the advocacy for taste and manners so prominent in the pioneering efforts of Addison and Steele; at other times, Flanner inserts herself neatly into the turmoil of the age, observing a bankrupt Berlin of 1931 or reflecting upon the fate of Warsaw some time after...
Because of media censorship, journalists must be equally careful. During a visit to Cambridge in spring 1979, Robert Cox, former editor-in-chief of the conservative English language newspaper, The Buenos Aires Herald, adamantly said the North American press exaggerated the extent of repression and censorship in Argentina. He contradicted himself six months later when he explained in Time magazine why he and his family chose to defect...
...finally ended the major strikes. In addition to pay raises and increased social benefits, Gierek's regime had granted -on paper at least-a spate of political concessions unprecedented anywhere in a Communist country: independent, worker-run trade unions, a legal right to strike and a relaxation of censorship. In return, the strikers agreed to recognize the supremacy of the Communist Party and to keep their independent trade unions out of the "political" realm...
...strikers back to work, ominous questions loomed even before Gierek's ousting. First of all, there was the text of the agreement itself; it contained ambiguous, even contradictory, language that could obviously lead to widely differing interpretations in the future. For example, the section providing for relaxation of censorship nevertheless asserts the government's right to "protect state and economic secrets." But more important was the question of whether the government would, or could, deliver on the spirit of the agreement. Even with the best of intentions, how could the regime, already economically strapped, deliver on its bread...
...Prime Minister and head of the ruling Democratic Republican Party, is recuperating from 46 days of detention and grilling by the military. Still under house arrest is Kim Young Sam, 52, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, who has renounced politics altogether. Chun has also imposed rigid military censorship on the press, suspended 172 periodicals for being "socially corrupt" and dismissed some 400 journalists. Last week the U.S. charged that South Korean newspapers were distorting dispatches to give the impression that the Chun government enjoyed unqualified American support...