Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What they envisioned was an America darkened not only by nuclear war but also by the imposition of martial law, food rationing, censorship and the suspension of many civil liberties. "We would have to run this country as one big camp -- severely regimented," Eisenhower told advisers in a top-secret memo dated 1955. Nor is it a matter only of remote historical interest. Many of those doomsday regulations would still be put into effect after a nuclear attack, and while preparations for rescuing the nation's leaders and cultural treasures remain in place, efforts to shield the civilian population were...
...order has given a lot of censorship power to a few resi- dents," said the Guild's Executive DirectorStephen Baird...
...course Ice-T has the right to say whatever he wants. But that doesn't require any company to provide him an outlet. And it doesn't relieve a company of responsibility for the messages it chooses to promote. Judgment is not "censorship." Many an "anguished cry" goes unrecorded. This one was recorded, and promoted, because a successful artist under contract wanted to record it. Nothing wrong with making money, but a company cannot take the money and run from the responsibility...
...sympathy is in order for Time Warner. It is indeed a "global force" with media tentacles around the world. If it imposes rigorous standards and values from the top, it gets accused of corporate censorship. If it doesn't, it gets accused of moral irresponsibility. A dilemma. But someone should have thought of that before deciding to become a global force...
...brush with death left her changed. "She seems beaten down," says a friend. "Quiet and not as assertive as she normally was." She had already been burned by some of the reaction to her campaign against obscene rock lyrics. While she always insisted that government censorship was never her goal, she found herself the target of a counterattack led by the A.C.L.U. Frank Zappa called her a "cultural terrorist." Hollywood liberals -- who were also big Democratic contributors -- piled on, which led her husband's advisers to encourage him to distance himself from his wife's effort...