Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peter Arnett, a CNN correspondent to the Middle East during the Gulf war, said censorship created problems for wartime reporters...
John R. MacArthur, who recently wroteSecond Front: Censorship and Propoganda in the Gulf War, also critized government intervention in the media during the Gulf War. Reporters covering the Gulf War was organized into "pools" closely supervised by military officials, he said...
...contemporary production of a Joe Orton play is usually surrounded by a number of discussions which generally contain the words "censorship," "propriety," and "homosexuality." These discussions often assume an intellectual tone which rarely escalates to the level of heated debate to which they did in England in the 1960s, when Orton wrote his plays. What was perhaps revolutionary then seems somewhat silly now. I do not mean to suggest that the issues which Orton's plays confront, namely censorship, propriety and homosexuality, have in any way abated--hardly. Instead, they have become much more complex and have moved into different...
...life, Zappa had all but abandoned rock; the '60s icon who had posed sitting naked on a toilet for a poster called Phi Zappa Krappa was instead encouraging young audiences to register to vote and battling censorship of rock lyrics. After cancer was diagnosed in 1990, he worked 14 hours a day in his home studio in the Hollywood Hills, composing a musical called Thing-Fish and contemplating an opera. With Suzy Creamcheese finally grown up, Zappa dropped the entertainer's mask, revealing the face of the artist beneath. "My music," he said, "makes the mind think...
...past reform campaigns against drugs, smoking, pollution and drunken driving, an informal alliance of opinion leaders sees a chance to break gridlock and bad habits and reopen a national debate. While denying any move toward censorship, such radio stations as WBLS in New York City have stopped playing songs that might encourage violence and misogyny. Others have banned the inflammatory music of the Gangsta Rappers. Last week manufacturers of video games agreed to place voluntary warning labels on packages that would rate the violent content...