Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Censorship and Responsibility
...only with a newspaper. The CRIMSON believes that if Radcliffe allows itself to take disciplinary action because of an inaccurate story, it is giving itself the right to censor stories to avoid "misrepresentation of Radcliffe policy" and by necessary extension this carries with it at least the threat of censorship to avoid publication of stories which Radcliffe would prefer not to be published. This threat of censorship is an inevitable consequence of application of college rules, disciplinary action, and finally probation in a case where, as the CRIMSON feels, open dealing with the reporter as a reporter as a reporter...
...reason it chooses. Or it can insist that its student reporters are reporters only by the permission of the Radcliffe administration, and can force them to retire when, in its opinion, they are not doing a good job. Which is to say that Radcliffe has the "right" of censorship over newspaper reporters when those reporters also happen to be Radcliffe undergraduates...
Second, such authority remains censorship even if the reporter's conduct is reprehensible beyond question. In the present case, the inaccuracy, unreliability, and lack of ethics of the CRIMSON and Miss Labenow could be ten times what even the worst accusations have claimed, and Radcliffe's actions would still classify as censorship. There are cases when censorship is necessary. Censorship that will protect the safety of the nation's armed forces is clearly such a case. Radcliffe feels that the protection of its own good name against what it claims to be inaccurate reporting is also such a case...
...done is clearly to assume authority to censor the news--but whether, according to the objectives of a liberal educational institution in a democratic society, it ought to have done it. My own opinion is that the protection of Radcliffe's good name is no justification for censorship, and that inaccuracy and lack of ethics, if they existed, should have been dealt with in any of a number of ways short of censorship. If more discussions were on this point, instead of on the price of fish, they might get somewhere...