Word: pogrund
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Benjamin Pogrund, an associate editor of South Africa's leading white liberal paper who spent six months working for The Boston Globe this year, said this fall that most newspaper censorship in South Africa has been internal. Members of the press must clear stories the regime considers either controversial or anti-apartheid with government representatives...
...Pogrund was unavailable yesterday for comment about Qoboza's arrest...
...South African government does not insure freedom of the press, but can arbitrarily decide whether a newspaper has overstepped its privileges. Rather than face law suits and possible detention, Pogrund said, most papers prefer to take moderate stands...
...does begin to imprison the editors of The Mail? "Any one of we top three can step in and take over at the drop of a hat or as a result of one phone call; that's what we've been brought up through the ranks and trained for," Pogrund says...
...suspect we'll continue to print what we think we should and make sure we have the hard facts. In the past we've made it very difficult for the government to move against us, so we know what we're doing. After all," Pogrund says, "we're pros...