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...viewers feel the same way? A November study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that most Americans wanted journalists to "dig hard" for war news rather than "trust officials." But most also favored military censorship. And as nearly every TV newscast was decking itself in electronic bunting, Pew's respondents gave the press high marks for both objectivity and "stand[ing] up for America." The apparent lesson: the public wants the media to dig hard--for good news. Still, Bruckheimer says Profiles won't be a whitewash. "Black Hawk shows a lot of blemishes...
...concerned that a site so popular with the under-18 set is unsupervised and doesn't restrict access to mature material--such as the NC-17-rated tales involving J.K. Rowling's Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape submitted by a girl whose online bio says she's 13. But censorship would be counter to Li's vision of an online community free to share its stuff, raw and uncut--as long as the graphic material is clearly marked. "I know how hard these writers work, and I respect it," says Li. Running the site takes 25 hours...
...attacks in World War II, were living in blissful ignorance of the peril they faced: "The people of Britain [were] largely unaware of the immediacy of the dangers that faced them....When it came to secret or sensitive matters the government would rely much less on peremptory state censorship than on the habitual self-censorship of the newspapers' editors and of their reporters." Later Lukacs observes: "Items about the war were often inaccurate, misleading, or even false." Perhaps today, in books, the various Peoples of the Book can finally find some useful information and some common ground. As Parenti writes...
...seems that we’re afraid of bad taste, but I wouldn’t want an era of good taste,” said Guare, referring to recent self-censorship by Hollywood and Broadway. He referred specifically to composer Stephen Sondheim’s decision to postpone opening his show “Assassins” on Broadway...
...greatest right a country can offer to its citizens is to be left alone,” he said, describing the censorship policies that characterized the beginning of Hitler’s dictatorship. “First he banned the pornography and then the Voltaire and Shakespeare...