Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sponsors and networks to sit down and try to arrive at some solution." One solution seemed some sort of informal "Loyalty Board." But the Authors' League of America, whose president is South Pacific's Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, denounced that solution as a "sorry plan for back-door censorship" and declared: "We do not believe in a little censorship, any more than in a large...
Johnson thought his not-so-subtle attempt at backdoor censorship would do the trick. In his resolution he had even lined up some examples of the men he was talking about. Topping the senatorial rogues' gallery: Hollywood's "Unfriendly Ten" (Screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson et al.) and Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, who, according to ex-Bergman Fan Johnson, had been "an apostle of Fascism ... an active Nazi collaborator ... a narcotic addict...
Time for Action. For all these violations of security, the Army could blame itself as well as correspondents. Early in the war, Correspondent Handleman and U.P.'s Tokyo bureau chief, Earnest Hoberecht, had asked the Army for some kind of military censorship. This and other such suggestions had been turned down by General MacArthur in favor of "voluntary censorship" (TIME, July 24). This ruling failed to recognize that newspapermen might honestly misjudge the importance of a particular piece of information. Nor did it allow for the fact that in the fiercely competitive business of news gathering there are bound...
...that "something must be done at once . . ." Said one Tokyo newsman: "It's time we faced up to the fact that a premature report of a troop landing means lives. I don't think we should take any more chances." Unless the Army is willing to institute censorship, or at least enforce an ironclad rule against reports of troop movements still in progress, it is virtually certain that more chances will be taken...
Reader Terrence O'Toole of Moorhead, Minn, was troubled. Why had Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner, been missing from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune for four weeks in a row? Wrote Reader O'Toole: "Censorship? Slow mail service? Forget to pay the syndicate...