Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe the Depression made Hollywood do it. Most of the studios were losing money by 1932 (RKO declared bankruptcy), and racy films brought in the money. But they also fanned the ire of state and local censorship boards. In 1934 the new Production Code had teeth, and under Joseph I. Breen, a former newspaperman, it bit hard. Dialogue was denatured from snappy to sappy; gowns hid what they once revealed; evil lost a lot of its seductive plausibility. And as studios sought to rerelease their pre-Code films, Breen insisted that cuts be made in the master negative, thus censoring...
...RUNNER-UP] TIPPER GORE: branded a "cultural terrorist" for advocating censorship of violent, sexual lyrics...
...said he quit his job as the opinion page editor at Hong Kong's Economic Daily because of censorship. He now holds the same position for the Apple Daily, another daily newspaper in Hong Kong...
...turn down such an offer on the chance that he would receive a Nieman--and in any event the job would have gone to someone else. I pointed out that Liu's new paper was the only one in Hong Kong, although it has mass appeal, free of political censorship or pressure. I said to Kovach that the decision to withdraw the fellowship seemed unjust...
...left the Economic Daily because of what he called terrible censorship, and moved to Hong Kong's Apple Daily, the second-largest daily in this Chinese territory...