Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World maps at the headquarters of major news-gathering organizations took a rare beating last week as harried editors plucked and switched pins representing correspondents to keep up with wide-ranging, fast-breaking stories of war and rebellion. The correspondents took a beating too-from bullets, censorship, travel snags, official red tape and broken communications...
...Madame Parachute." The Hungarian story was still sizzling when Israel's invasion of Egypt caught some editors flat-footed-and several Middle East cor respondents off their Cairo base on swings through Jordan and Lebanon. Those in Amman and Beirut were sealed off from action by censorship or travel restrictions. Editors urgently ordered new shifts in their European bureaus to get extra men to Cairo, as well as to Tel Aviv and the British-French base on Cyprus. A dozen correspondents rushing to the Middle East were stranded in Athens when...
...Undergraduate newspapers are discussed with a conclusion that controlled press implies an institution's responsibility for whatever immaturity or irresponsibility appears in the paper. The report also suggests that control and censorship limit the educational value of having such a paper...
...five-week tour of Britain's territories in East Africa, brisk but smiling Princess Margaret was greeted on Mauritius by a fez-topped honor guard, soldiers of the Tanganyika battalion of the King's African Rifles. Later, she moved on to the spice island of Zanzibar. Censorship was instituted to tone down earthy invitations, mostly in Swahili but some in English, that are all the rage with Zanzibar's native girls, who now wear various amorous slogans written on their bright robes. By the time she drove observantly around the island, the most suggestive such bids...
...never having lived in a free country, Nasser does not grasp how Western policy is made, and tends to read all sorts of secret motivations and nonexistent attitudes of governments into the comments of the foreign press. He has become excessively sensitive to personal criticism, and maintains a tight censorship over his own press...