Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elsewhere in the gulf, the press is operating under other tough restrictions. Israel has long required that all material relating to military security be subject to censorship. Revealing such details as the exact location of Scud missile hits is forbidden. (The information could theoretically be used by the Iraqis to improve their targeting.) After a Scud attack in Tel Aviv, NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher broadcast prematurely that there were casualties; Israeli authorities retaliated by cutting NBC's satellite link. NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw had to apologize on air for the inadvertent violation before the line was restored. "We apologized...
CAPTION: The U.S. military is censoring reports coming out of the Middle East. Do you think it is wrong, or do you think censorship is necessary under the circumstances...
Despite this censorship, do you think you are getting enough information about...
...FIRST WAR free of formal military censorship, television footage of napalm and bombings in Vietnam were beamed into millions of American living rooms. Some say they were responsible for turning public opinion against...
...demonstrated before that he is ready to use armed force to hold the union together. Now Gorbachev has adopted stale Stalinist lies by claiming he is responding to pleas from nameless patriots to protect the socialist revolution from fascists. To bolster those lies he is also moving to reintroduce censorship. It was no accident that 15 unarmed protesters died defending Lithuania's television center. Glasnost, which has succeeded, is as endangered as perestroika, which...