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Last night's panel discussion on "Free Speech & Responsible Journalism in the Academic Community" focused on the David Horowitz and "Invasian" controversies-and on The Crimson-as participants examined issues of media access, minority representation, protest and censorship...
...Catholic and evangelical church groups, the President is crusading for a "moral recovery" after the two-year regime of Estrada, 63, an ex-film star who bragged about his fondness for women and booze. Live Show is the first victim in this crusade, and many newspapers are calling it censorship. And worries of a nationwide bowdlerization campaign were exacerbated by Macapagal-Arroyo's banning of a film she hadn't even seen. One columnist, the Manila Standard's Alex Magno, wrote: "We cannot allow that noble vision of a 'moral society' to be taken hostage by those...
...Roces argues that directors ought to be licensed and then fined if they make films deemed pornographic. This scares the movie crowd. "We're going back to a Jurassic period," says Joey Reyes, director of Live Show. Tight censorship may help kill off the Filipino movie industry, whose production slumped from 144 films in 1999 to only 84 last year. Local films are losing out against foreign blockbusters and video pirates. A case in point is Live Show: with all the buzz over its banning, many more Filipinos?including underage kids?are catching it on pirated videos than ever...
...entire film industry in China is a censorship apparatus. The Beijing Film Academy disgorges talented directors, but the regional film studios typically employ these ambitious youngsters in menial jobs. The government hopes that, by the time they are finally given the chance to make a film, they will be sympathetic to the corruption of the system?docile artisans...
This is just another example of why freedom and tolerance are preferable to censorship and narrow-minded refusal to consider all sides of an important controversy such as reparations for slavery...