Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in his own area, the East Pakistani feels like a second-class citizen, exploited by carpetbaggers from Karachi who hold most of the top government posts and most of the top police jobs. Last week the news seeped through tight censorship that East Pakistan's hatred had flared into appalling bloodshed...
Among the 1,400-odd newspapers and magazines of Spain, only one is free of ironhanded censorship by the Franco government. The exception is Ecclesia (circ. 17,000), official weekly organ of the Spanish Catholic Action group. Ecclesia owes its freedom to its powerful chairman, Enrico Cardinal Pla y Deniel, Archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal Primate of Spain, who is able to stand up for his rights as no Spanish journalist can. Last week Ecclesia Editor Jesus Iribarren, 42, a Basque priest who is the cardinal's journalistic right hand, used the weekly's unique freedom to denounce...
...spirit of initiative and personal decision, compared to [our country], where the press is directed. [We can] write only what is ordered ... In Spain public opinion is disregarded, and anybody who wants to read the news has to look anywhere except in newspapers." Spain's rigid press censorship dates from the civil war, when Franco published a "provisional law" giving the state the right to appoint and dismiss editors. By daily directives to editors, the government also dictates what to print and what not to print. As a result Spanish newspapers have fallen into such low esteem that...
...defense of the crime books. Publisher (Entertaining Comics Group) William Gaines opposed any censorship, on the ground that the publishers themselves are best qualified to decide what is "good taste." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver drily asked whether Publisher Gaines considered "good taste" a comic-book cover showing an ax-wielding man holding aloft the severed head of a blonde. Answered Gaines: "Yes, I do-for the cover of a horror comic. I think it would be in bad taste if the head were held a little higher so the neck would show with the blood dripping...
...aware that in war, special security precautions must be taken. What irritates them is that the French have made little effort to develop a system to suit the circumstances. The public-information officers, selected from the army, usually know little about how reporters and newspapers work. Stories submitted to censorship are often lost, interviews are promised, then forgotten. Briefings are curt and colorless. Even so, release times are set for as long as twelve hours after briefings, making news stale by the time it appears. Army photos, the only battle pictures available, must be released first "in Paris, are often...