Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under a double handicap. In Moscow Russian censors never passed a word of his copy that did not fit the Communist line; in New York the Times usually ran Salisbury's dispatches with no warning that the stories had been passed by the world's most ironhanded censorship. As a result, his reports often read more like Red propaganda than accounts of what was really going on inside Russia. Salisbury himself was even accused of being pro-Soviet or a fellow traveler...
Last week, back in Manhattan at his own request for reassignment to the Times's city staff, Salisbury was able to answer his critics by writing "for the first time . . without the restrictions of censorship or the fear of it." His 14-part series was not only a well-written, fresh, firsthand report on Russian Communism. It also vividly demonstrated how misleading many of his censored Times stories were. (Wailed Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker: "Why did Salisbury write one thing from Moscow and the opposite from New York?") Explained Salisbury: "[This is] the real story...
There are many ways in which the moving picture industry could have reacted to the new liberalized code of censorship. After the Supreme Court decided the Miracle case, and after The Moon Is Blue ran successfully without Johnson Office clearance, motion pictures could have come upon a new era of mature, thoughtful production commensurate with the responsibility of new-found freedom. Fortunately, in the interest of maintaining a consistent front of juvenile sensationalism, moving pictures are headed back to the excesses that once made Hays censorship czar...
When the top editors resigned, other staff members took over the paper, but they, in turn, resigned after the University imposed faculty censorship on the paper. This spring, the new managing editor, running for president, took a stand against segregation. He was unanimously defeated by a student-faculty board of control. But in the final spring edition, the student who was finally elected president continued the paper's former stand and printed a column headed, "Segregation Is Wrong...
...Queens College, on the other hand, not the administration, but the Student Council threatened censorship of the campus newspaper this spring. After the Crown printed an advertisement from the Labor Youth League, which is listed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, the Student Council ruled by a vote of 19-6 that any college publication "which carries such ads shall be subject to immediate suspension and possible revocation of its charter...