censorship

Dan SavageA Tale of Two Savages
by Saab Lofton

"The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

"No romance without finance ... your silky words are sweet, but your pockets sure look empty."
--from the song Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent by Gwen Guthrie

'Howl' too hot to hear

50 years after poem ruled not obscene, radio fears to air it

Joe Garofoli
Chronicle Staff Writer
The San Francisco Chronicle

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Fifty years ago today, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's Beat-era poem "Howl" was not obscene. Yet today, a New York public broadcasting station decided not to air the poem, fearing that the Federal Communications Commission will find it indecent and crush the network with crippling fines.

Wow! The Emmys censored Sally Field!

LA Times
9-16-07
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Producers of Sunday's Emmy telecast bleeped best drama actress winner Sally Field in the midst of a controversial acceptance speech attacking U.S. involvement in Iraq.

"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't be any god -" she said when the sound went dead and the camera suddenly turned away from the stage so viewers would be distracted. Chopped off were the words "god-damned wars in the first place." (The phrase was not censored in the Canadian telecast.)

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Article By Saab Lofton - Jun 30 2007 - coanews

Few things in life are more irritating than the naive incredulousness one faces whenever they point out there is censorship in America. That's why I thank God for Dr.Peter Phillips of Project Censored. Walter Cronkite called Project Censored, "one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism." Fortunately, I was able to land this interview with Dr. Phillips.

Ray Bradbury with Bush: President George W. Bush and Laura Bush present the 2004 National Medal of Arts award to Ray Bradbury. White House photo by Susan Sterner.
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
rawstory.com - Monday June 4, 2007

Contrary to widespread critical and mass opinion accumulated over fifty years, author Ray Bradbury insists that his classic novel Fahrenheit 451, originally published in 1953 during the McCarthy era, isn't really about government censorship.