Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve only to emphasize as indecent what would otherwise pass unnoticed. In this free country a man ought to have a right to see a filthy show if he wants to. Preventing him from seeing it will not prevent him from being the kind of person that wants to. . . . Censorship, for all its misguided good intentions, is just another racket the people have...
...controlled) and turned over to the American press representative. He also has access, in some cases, to an official press bureau of the government, and to a government-inspired or-controlled local press. What material he assembles perhaps then must run the gauntlet of a more or less stringent censorship, and be transmitted over cable and radio facilities also nationally controlled. Nearly every source of information is slightly biased, every avenue of communication may be closed by one or another government if the news is displeasing. The news is further filtered through American editorial desks, cager, in many cases...
This, perhaps, is exaggeration. Certainly, so far as the United States is concerned, there is still the time-worn safeguard of competition--the competition of press associations, of newspapers, of cable companies--and freedom from censorship. The extravagance of one report may be corrected by the moderation of another. There is further the competition of news despatches from many foreign capitals. Affirmation clashes with denial. Oddly enough, national competition still has its value. But ruthless competition in any form (national, or that of profit-greedy newspapers, as during the Cuban crisis, 1895-1898) is as dangerous as autocratic, or monopolistic...
...With censorship around the Kremlin airtight, travelers leaving Russia reported that at Leningrad the local Gay-pay-oo, in panic at Stalin's arrival to investigate Kirov's death fortnight ago, refused to admit agents of the Moscow Gay-pay-oo who accompanied the Dictator...
...made a baronet in 1918, finally raised to the peerage. Publisher Riddell's brazen career in yellow-journalism was blandly overlooked when War was declared. He was appointed liaison officer between the Government and the Press and for four years kept the relationship as amicable as military censorship would permit. The Versailles Conference found him the affable go-between of the British signatories and the Press. A newsman at heart, Lord Riddell was disappointed when Clemenceau truculently refused to have the signing ceremony take place at the historic hour of 11 a. m. because the "Tiger" was hungry and wanted...