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	Censorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Censorship is the control of speech and other forms of human expression, often in the context of government control.
		Wartime censorship is carried out with the intention of preventing the release of information that might be advantageous to the enemy.
		A recent phenomenon for avoiding censorship and speaking directly to members of society is culture jamming, where individuals or non-conforming groups use large-scale corporate techniques to attack implicit domination and censorship through trivial or deliberately irrelevant messages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Censorship (1427 words)

	Journalists: U.S. media censorship is ‘rampant’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Self-censorship is a particular problem because of the "myth of neutrality" that surrounds Western media.
		Coupled with the self-censorship is the censorship being imposed by the U.S. on the Iraqi media, Mr.
		The U.S. administration has set up a committee for censorship in Iraq, which means the Iraqi press can publish anything to remind people about the terror of Saddam, but is not allowed to write freely about current events crucial to them and their future.
	www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/article_896.shtml (791 words)

	Culture Shock: Who Decides? How and Why?: Definitions of Censorship
		The term "censorship" comes from The Latin, censere "to give as one's opinion, to assess." The Roman censors were magistrates who took the census count and served as assessors and inspectors of morals and conduct.
		For the ALA, technically censorship means the "The Removal of material from open access by government authority." The ALA also distinguishes various levels of incidents in respect to materials in a library which may or may not lead to censorship: Inquiry, Expression of Concern, Complaint, Attack, and Censorship.
		Censorship - the prevention of publication, transmission, or exhibition of material considered undesirable for the general public to possess or be exposed to.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/cultureshock/whodecides/definitions.html (808 words)

	FEN Newswire: MEDIA CENSORSHIP WON'T STOP VIOLENCE, BOOK COMMUNITY WARNS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Parents must play the primary role in shaping their children's media choices, and they must prepare their children for the wide range of material and information to which they will be exposed in a free society.
		The answer to perceived gratuitous violence or demeaning portrayals in the media is not the heavy hand of government censorship, but the conscious control of one's (and one's children's) consumption and choices.
		If the media misread the degree of public interest in or tolerance for particular fare - violent or otherwise - surely the swiftest way for the public to get that message across in our free-market economy is at the box office, the book or record store, or via the channel selector of a television set.
	www.freeexpression.org /newswire/1129_2000.htm (1670 words)

	Censorship - SourceWatch
		Censorship is the use of state power or public body or individual to control freedom of expression.
		Censorship 'criminalizes' some actions or the communication (and suggested communications) of actions.
		The purpose of censorship is to maintain the status quo, to control the development of a society, or to stifle dissent among a subject people.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Censorship (192 words)

	Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership - Global Issues
		While corporate media per se may not be a bad thing, it is when there is a concentration of ownership that there is a risk of increased economic and political influence that can be somewhat unaccountable, which is of concern.
		But ultimately it is politically conservative, because the media giants are significant beneficiaries of the current social structure around the world, and any upheaval in property or social relations--particularly to the extent that it reduces the power of business--is not in their interest.
		In this respect, as the mainstream media is more corporate owned, the same market pressures that affect those companies, affect the media as well and hence, the media itself is largely driven by the forces of the market.
	www.globalissues.org /HumanRights/Media/Corporations/Owners.asp (4833 words)

	CPJ News Alert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Media are limited in their ability to cite NATO or the U.S. State Department.
		As a result of the new censorship policies, journalists are restricted in the sources that they can use in their reporting.
		While censorship is not as visible as the shutdowns, detentions and fines imposed last week, the overall effect of censorship is equally if not more debilitating for the independent media.
	www.cpj.org /news/1999/Yugo31March99.html (577 words)

	NZAVS - Media Censorship
		For example on WDLA April 24 1992 approximately 400 people bearing banners condemning General Motors for crash- testing their vehicles on animals, marched to the firm in a strong and extremely visually effective demonstration.
		NZAVS notes that media coverage of recent abolitionist campaigns highlighting the scientific fraud of vivisection has been trivial or non-existent, with reporters not even attending let alone reporting on our demonstrations.
		On the rare occasions that it does occur it is usually as a footnote to ALF activities.
	www.nzavs.org.nz /media.html (351 words)

	Media Censorship and / or Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The media had a report that showed a photo of a fl woman who had taken food and called her a 'looter', then in another news story two white people were taking food from the same store and it was described as 'taking food'.
		That was because censorship and the manipulative media treatment of the tragic event, managed by Washington and Tokyo, greatly muffled the impact of the catastrophe and made the press an accomplice in the war.
		Instead it is more accurate to speak of big media in the US today as the corporate media and to use the term in the singular tense-as it refers to the singular monolithic top-down power structure of self-interested news giants.
	www.independent-media.tv /gtheme.cfm?ftheme_id=40 (6624 words)

	Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The media are not merely close to corporate America, they are an integral part of it.
		Where once there were hundreds of independent media owners and producers, now a mere handful of megamedia organizations overwhelmingly control the media.
		Censorship creeps in, not from the government but from the protection of conglomerate interests.
	www.accd.edu /pac/philosop/phil1301/media.htm (2238 words)

	China Should Stop Media Censorship and Blockade to Save People's Lives Petition
		Media censorship, suppression and blockade will only allow the cover-up of corruption and malfunctions that happen in the past, present and future.
		And media censorship and blockade during a public health crisis is as good as taking people’s lives directly.
		We urgently calls for all governments, NGO, media and public to urge China to stop media censorship, suppression and blockade, especially in the period of 60th annual UN summit and the visit of China’s president Hu Jingtao to North America.
	www.petitiononline.com /SOH2005/petition.html (841 words)

	The Censorship Connection
		The score in Suhor's Sampler of 14 censorship cases in which SLATE provided assistance is Intellectual Freedom 12, Censors 0, with one tie and one case pending.
		We still have a long way to go, though, in fighting what might be called "silent censorship." This form of censorship happens behind the scenes and accomplishes its purpose away from the eyes and ears of the press and thus away from the aid of the national organizations that would help if they could.
		Yet media literacy is one of the major silent deletions in the English language arts curriculum.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ALAN/winter94/CenCONN.html (1802 words)

	village voice > news > Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the Gulf War, the Pentagon established new ground rules for the media, such as granting access only to a small group of reporters and screening dispatches to prevent the release of classified information.
		Asked if the Pentagon has developed ground rules that prohibit live broadcasts from combat zones, the spokesperson confirmed that "there are certain things we are going to be concerned with that will hinder the immediate broadcast of stories." She said "operation managers" will make those decisions, depending on the situation.
		For one thing, the military doesn't want the media sending satellite signals that might tell the enemy where the troops are.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0247/cotts.php (1108 words)

	Censorship Reference Guide - Online Library - EntireEarth.com
		There is little doubt that the media have overwhelmed books as the preferred source of information and entertainment worldwide, and the United States is both the primary producer and the primary consumer of the media product.
		His explanation of why the major media had failed to discuss the disadvantages of media consolidation was simple: editors were not interested in these problems because they were all in the newspaper consolidation business themselves.
		Indeed, the media's failure to address the most significant problem in its industry caused that very issue to be declared the "most censored news story of 1987" by the prestigious Project Censored.
	www.entireearth.com /online_library/Censorship.html (1242 words)

	Media Censorship
		Index on Censorship was founded in 1972 by a dedicated team of writers, journalists and artists inspired by the British poet Stephen Spender to take to the page in defence of the basic human right of free expression.
		Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters.
		The Center for Media and Democracy is a nonprofit organization that works to strengthen democracy by promoting media that are "of, by and for the people" - genuinely informative and broadly participatory - and by removing the barriers and distortions of the modern information environment that stem from government- or corporate-dominated, hierarchical media.
	www.shambles.net /pages/learning/resources/censorship (369 words)

	More Media/Newspaper censorship of the truth in Victoria - D-notice.
		It seems that the mainstream/controlled media in Melbourne continue to forcibly censor out all reference to Australia’s leading corruption whistleblower and author as well as his books.
		This hasn’t stopped them from plagiarizing material from his books and internet websites and then claiming it to be the results of their own ‘investigations’.
		They were prominently reported by news media, including a number of front pages, except for Melbourne’s Herald-Sun, the Age and others observing the D-notice against him.
	www.smuggled.com /Censor2.htm (1571 words)

	The Tobacco Taboo
		He deemed this refusal of reporting to be a "malicious dereliction of duty," and that the "natural and probable consequence" of this censorship would be millions of deaths, people "who will go on smoking indefinitely, oblivious of the danger to their health and their very lives to which are" being subjected.
		Instead, the media intentionally prints disinformation, linking crime to non-causes, media violence, guns, etc. The harm that results to the public cannot be deemed other than intentional.
		When you see that smiling media face, beware: That smile is often malicious, sadistic, and conceals a clenched fist, by perhaps a Confederate who has a vehement hatred for you and your family, and wants you to suffer and die horribly.
	medicolegal.tripod.com /tobaccotaboo.htm (4928 words)

	MEDIA: Censorship by the Bullet
		Siems says that "censorship by the bullet" is increasingly common, and laments that only 35 of the murderers of 245 journalists in the past 10 years have been prosecuted.
		Just before Hydara's murder, the Gambian National Assembly passed new media legislation requiring authors of any published works that fell under broad definitions of libel, or that were deemed "seditious", to serve a 6-month minimum prison term for their first offence, and three years for repeat offences.
		While media reform in the Middle East is a lightning rod of international attention right now, Gambia is a story that is off the radar, he said.
	ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=28301 (1231 words)

	ZNet \|Mainstream Media \| Media Censorship That Doesn't Speak Its Name
		The censorship in Australia that he describes is especially virulent because Australia is a small media pond inhabited by large sharks: a microcosm of what the British might expect if the current assault on free journalism is not challenged.
		The global model for censorship by omission in free societies is America, which constitutionally has the freest press in the world.
		Harnessing journalism and reducing it to the "spokesman's spokesman", a branch of corporate and government public relations, is the hidden agenda of the new media deregulators.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=4257 (1084 words)

	Media Control and Censorship
		You have shown that despite media monopolies and manipulations it is possible to preserve a spirit of tolerance, freedom and truth and to allow dissenting voices to be heard...
		The character of media repression is virtually the same under openly totalitarian dictatorships as it is under democratic systems which are increasingly influenced by conservative structures."
		the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Media/MediaCensorship.html (1125 words)

	'Into The Buzzsaw' -18 Tales Of US Media Censorship
		The media has already branded them unreliable, so their charges are extremely unlikely to be taken seriously.
		While most alternative press readers are familiar with Noam Chomsky's scrupulous documentation of the way government lies become the media's conventional wisdom and with Robert McChesney (who wrote Buzzsaw's conclusion) and Mark Crispin Millers' analysis of corporate consolidation, they are routinely written off by those policing the perimeters of acceptable debate.
		Beyond the specifics of each story, "Into the Buzzsaw" is about how the elite sector of the media bestows the imprimatur of truth on its own interpretations of the world.
	www.rense.com /general22/c.htm (1405 words)

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		The media has played a major role in keeping the public informed about the violent insurgency, including individual killings, torture of civilians, abductions, extortion, bombing of schools and human rights abuses.
		According to a new report by the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), dozens of qualified, experienced media staff have given up the profession and are now working as teachers, grocers, retailers and involved in farming.
		Pressure from international media watchdogs to relax media censorship in Nepal has had little impact.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=46091&SelectRegion=Asia&SelectCountry=NEPAL (1245 words)

	Reject the Law of Silence
		From the BBC's capitulation to the Israeli government, to the rush to eulogise a deeply reactionary Pope, pressure on the media is leading to insidious new state propaganda.
		What is new is the extent to which insidious state propaganda has penetrated sections of the media whose independence has been, until recently, accepted by much of the public.
		I emphasised that this censorship was not conspiratorial, but often unconscious, even subliminal; such was our training and grooming.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article8481.htm (1108 words)

	The Free Expression Policy Project
		As Mark Goodman of the Student Press Law Center noted, censorship of the student press has increased dramatically -- his organization saw a 41 percent leap in the number of reported censorship incidents between 1999 and 2000, usually for articles about sexuality or school shootings, or critiques of school policies.
		After the youth panel, we conducted a strategizing session on three hypothetical censorship scenarios, and then spent the remainder of the afternoon brainstorming ways to defend minors’ free expression rights in the future.
		Teach them how to make their own media – be it an online magazine or a radio show or a documentary film.
	www.fepproject.org /commentaries/53colloquium.html (1103 words)

	Taboo Media - Music Censorship
		Sometimes the censorship was done for political reasons, other times for religious ones, but the impact was the same no less.
		The walls of the gallery were adorned with 'scandalous' images from decades of censorship, when AC/DC, Prince, and John Lennon shared notoriety with the Scorpions, Alice Cooper, and Body Count as far as dirtying the minds of the innocent was concerned.
		Review the origins of censorship; how governmental responses to 9/11 have affected music; how music and pop culture are being weaponized by the Pentagon in the Iraq War; how America's traditions of musical dissent have been attacked; how the FCC is now focusing on selected targets and ignoring Right-Wing hate-speech radio broadcasts.
	www.tabootunes.com /media.html (8603 words)

	Comm217: US Media Censorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In attacking the seemingly explicit self-censorship pervading the US media and its tame coverage of the Bush administration at this time, Matthew Engel (The Guardian) suggested that criticism was more likely to spew forth from the online journalists.
		In dealing with the Bush administration, the US media are simply overlooking issues considered too controversial for comment.
		And it appears that such docile media treatment is extended to the entire Bush clan.
	www.stanford.edu /class/comm217/archives/000073.html (391 words)

	Censorship, Inc.: The Corporate Threat to Free Speech in the United States by Lawrence Soley
		From the tobacco industry's attempts to prevent information about the effects of smoking on health from becoming public to corporate lawyers advising tire manufacturers not to disclose that their products are causing death on the roads, what are often seen as legitimate business practices constantly narrows our right to free speech.
		Censorship, Inc. is a comprehensive examination of the vast array of corporate practices which restrict free speech in the United States today.
		Soley gives a systematic and detailed account of the legal processes that enable corporate censorship to continue or be halted in fields as diverse as advertising and the media, the workplace, community life, and the environment.
	www.monthlyreview.org /censorshipinc.htm (498 words)

	Arab Media: film censorship
		This self-censorship is "internalised by the absence of a set of written guidelines", he continues.
		Religion is a major source of censorship (self or otherwise imposed), because although representation of the Prophet Mohamed in human form is forbidden in order to prevent idolatry, there is nothing written that prevents the cinema dealing with religious themes.
		Both filmmakers have experienced the ‘censorship’ women usually find: "Men are very priviliged in our societies, so they profit from their privilege -naturally.
	www.al-bab.com /media/cinema/film4.htm (721 words)

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