Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arts community is using censorship as abuzz word," said the aide, who requestedanonymity. "The NEA was created by Congress. Thearts community is saying Congress hasn't any sayin determining where [the funds...
Whenever parents raise these concerns, the entertainment industry invokes the evil specter of censorship. But the U.S. has always had censorship. Even MTV has its own censors. What is truly strange is the argument that there should be no censorship whatsoever. Should hard-core pornography be allowed on + prime-time, broadcast TV? Are there no limits? No society can survive if its only rule is, "Anything goes...
Faculty members vehemently denounce what they call the Thought Police for muzzling the free exchange of ideas, however provocative or unfashionable. Many professors charge that the bans invite misinterpretation and self- censorship. Last May, for example, a Brown art professor canceled a screening of The Birth of a Nation, the D.W. Griffith classic about the Ku Klux Klan, because the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. opposed...
Gore of P.M.R.C., which is in favor of labeling but not censorship, talks of 14 million children "at risk" and in need of counseling thanks to the "graphic brutality marketed to these kids through music and television." Lawmakers in 19 states went further; they considered proposing warning labels for any song dealing with such topics as drugs, incest, murder and suicide, which would conceivably outlaw depraved works like I Get a Kick Out of You, Die Walkure, Frankie and Johnny and Tosca. The music industry quickly forestalled such legislation by decreeing that record companies will decide which material is controversial...
...American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., has campaigned to get stores to remove Playboy, Penthouse and similar magazines from their shelves. Last week the 1,300-store Waldenbooks chain, the nation's largest, launched a counterattack in the form of full-page ads in 32 U.S. newspapers, denouncing "censorship efforts" and "an increasing pattern of intolerance...