Word: censorships
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...When we see a helicopter land on the roof of the CBS building and a man in a dark suit from New York get out," jokes one of Lear's writers, "we know we're in censorship trouble." Network censors are rarely as melodramatic as that. Usually they are a task force of some two dozen men and women, each of whom oversees a portion of a network's total programming (including commercials); they review scripts and sit in on tapings and screenings, questioning anything that seems to conflict with federal broadcasting law or their network's standards of taste...
...Days later, Horowitz began an advertising campaign that would catapult him to national prominence-or infamy, depending on who you ask-and would raise serious questions in the minds of many at Harvard and around the country about censorship in the name of being "politically correct...
...thing is certain: though they raged for three months this past year, debates over the distinctions between persuasion and coercion, censure and censorship, and civility and "left-wing McCarthyism" yielded no clear resolutions about how an academic community like Harvard should preserve the principle of free speech while remaining sensitive to its spectrum of opinions...
...PSLM’s tactics seems to be a strategy of shaming people into believing the way they do: some ask “how can you not believe in a living wage?” This is nothing but moral arrogance, and it reeks of leftist censorship...
Lewis noted a historical shift in censorship since...