Censorship

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We Should Never Scrap Books Out of Fear of Fanatics

Johann Hari | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Religious Studies Islam, Religion, Islam, Islamic Radicalism, Theo Van Gogh, Muslims, Muslims Europe, The Jewel of Medina, Censoring Criticism of Islam, Sherry Jones, Censorship, Politics News

Ask enough tough questions, and faith is less likely to inspire people to kill and die for it. But doubtful Muslims, and the atheists who support them, are being prevented from following this path.

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Policing Themselves to Death: CNN's Strict New Blogging Policy

Chez Pazienza | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Censorship, Blogging, Cnn Blog, Media News

CNN's blogging policy proves not only that it doesn't get it when it comes to what new media means for the future of journalism, but that the network is perfectly content to police itself into irrelevancy.

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The Great Olympic Swindle: How China Tricked the World on Press Freedom

David Flumenbaum | Posted 08.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Olympic Reporters, Freedom of the Press, Beijing Olympics, China Olympics, Press Freedom, China, Olympic Press, Censorship, Chinese Censorship, Censored Internet China, Olympics, Media News

By not demanding a free press during the Games, the rest of the world has conspired with China, giving its government the power to censor, not just for its own people, but now for ours.

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An Insight into IOC Thinking: Its 2007 Beijing Briefing on Major Communications Issues

Monroe Price | Posted 08.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Torch Relay, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Olympics, Strategic Communication, Tibet, Religious Freedom, Air Quality, Branding, Sudan, Pollution, Media News

One of the most interesting documents to appear during July's IOC/blogosphere brouhaha was an internal IOC document dated August 3, 2007 called Beijing Briefing Kit: One-Year-to-Go Countdown Resource.

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How to Read the Great Olympics Internet Censorship Drama

Monroe Price | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Censorship, Australia, Jacque Rogge, Darfur, Tibet, Kevan Gosper, Falun Gong, International Olympic Committee, Amnesty International, Ioc, Olympics, Bocog, Media News

The IOC has known that China's website policies would be a problem all along and informally sought to manage change.

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Did Google Kill Journalism?

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq 4000 Deaths, Embedded Journalists, Suicide Bombers, Marines Iraq Suicide Bomb, Iraq, Censorship, Journalism, Media News

The death of Journalism began it was expected to begin to earn a profit -- or maybe we're witnessing the birth of Journalism.

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Huffington Post: Still Banned in Beijing

David Wallechinsky | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Huffington Post Blocked, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, HuffPost Block China, China Censorship, Censorship, China, Chinese Censorship, Media News

While the Chinese Communist Party has lifted the bans on the Amnesty International and BBC News sites, one site has continued to be totally blocked in Beijing: Huffingtonpost.com.

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Olympics Committee Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China

ABC News | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

Read More: China Blocks Internet Access, Olympics Foreign Journalists, Olympics, Media Censorship, Beijing Olympics Internet Access, Censorship, Olympics Media, China, Internet Censorship, Media News

Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC ...

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Is Gossip Girl What Teens Really Want?

Tina Wells | Posted 07.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Underage Drinking, Teens, Gossip Girl Ratings, Teen Sex, Gossip Girl, Gossip Girl Ads, Parent Groups, I Hate Gossip Girl, Censorship, Blake Lively, Entertainment News

Gossip Girl bears next to no resemblance to the real lives of teens, even from that narrow, privileged demographic. I get the concept of escapism, but, honestly, what are today's teens escaping from?

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Subcontracting the First Amendment

Leslie Harris | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spectrum, Unconstitutional, First Amendment Rights, First Amendment, Broadband, Fcc, Broadcast Indecency, National Broadband, Internet Censorship, Censorship, Politics News

The First Amendment doesn't allow the FCC to function as an Internet board of review. The real question is why would such a proposal even be put out for comment.

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Reading The Pictures: 4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq, Zoriah Miller, War Fatalities, Photographs, Cristoph Bangert, Military, Fallujah, Michael Kamber, Ashley Gilbertson, U.S. Soldiers, Dover, Anbar, Casualties, Censorship, Media News

The military has been so effective in muting the war, and the war photographer, that many of our best shooters have found themselves turning to the technique of irony.

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Olympic Broadcasters Still At Odds With Chinese Government

AP | STEPHEN WADE | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Olympics Broadcasters, Broadcasting, NBC Olympics, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Chinese Government, China, Censorship, China Censorship, Media News

BEIJING — The Beijing Olympics may not look much different from previous games on TV. Behind the studio sets, however, world broadcasters have ...

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Photog Back Home After Getting Kicked Out of Iraq -- For Showing the Real War

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Photos, Warwire, Iraq, Censorship, War, Zoriah Miller, Politics News

A freelance war photographer was kicked out of his embed after he published on his blog a photo of a dead U.S. Marine, among other strong images. The military says this violated embed rules.

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The Freedom to Offend

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama New Yorker Cover, Obama New Yorker, Censorship, Media News

While there may be some who find a political cartoon disturbing, the ramifications of self-censorship, as well as societal pressure to redact that which offends, must be resisted.

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Reading The Pictures: The Case Of The Invisible American War Machine

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq War, Time, Military, Petraeus, Censorship, Iraqi Army, Amara, Media News

Last week, I thought there was something fishy about the photos from Amara, and now a new Time article bears it out.

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China Announces Ban On "Illegal" Olympic Sites

Danwei | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media

Read More: China Censorship, Censorship, China, Internet Censorship, Olympics, Media News

Over 20 video websites were "reprimanded" and asked to "stop infringement" by China's Copyright Administration, today's Beijing News reported. These w...

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Digital China: Ten Things Worth Knowing about the Chinese Internet

Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Internet, Chinese Media, Beijing Olympics, Chinese Culture, China Olympics, China Internet Access, China Bloggers, Censorship, China, Internet China, Chinese Censorship, Politics News

Thanks largely to the Olympics, 2008 will go down in history as a turning point year for China -- or, rather, one when the country passed several milestones, including for the Chinese Internet.

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Freedom Banned

Richard LaGravenese | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, Amnesty International Freedom Writers, Long Beach, Holocaust, Anne Frank, Hilary Swank, Books, Shakespeare, Censorship, Freedom Writers, Media News

In Perry, Indiana, the School Board has suspended a teacher for allowing her students to read The Freedom Writers Diary. How can it be that they did not see the value of the lessons to be learned?

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The Question Carlin Left Behind: What is Obscenity?

Danny Schechter | Posted 06.30.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: George Carlin, Ugly George, Obscenity, Aclu, Fcc, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin Seven Words, Censorship, Standards and Practices, Entertainment News

Comic social commentators like George Carlin, Lenny Bruce and mavericks like New York's Ugly George have been uncturing the pervasive hypocrisy on the issue of obscenity laws.

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The "N" Word on Network Television

Samara O'Shea | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Meredith Vieira and Cunt, Dick Cavett, John Lennon, The Vagina Monologues, Jesse Joyce, Jane Fonda, The N Word, Bad Words, Freedom of Speech, Language, First Amendment, Censorship, Entertainment News

Thanks to the First Amendment, there's not a single word in the English language that I should be afraid to say. But I am -- and the more afraid we are to use a word the more control that word has.

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CNN Fails To See The Irony In Their Carlin Tribute

Huffington Post | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Video, Cnn, George Carlin Seven Words, Seven Words, George Carlin, Censorship, Entertainment News

CNN has released a tribute to George Carlin, specifically his "Seven Words" routine. Ironically, they bleep out the words while discussing how some o...

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The Seven Dirty Words You'd Never Hear Today

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Media, George Carlin, Censorship, George Carlin Died, George Carlin Seven Words, George Carlin Dies, Entertainment News

Every flattering statement, every overzealous compliment about George Carlin will still be too few for one of the greatest comedians ever to shout his fearlessness into a microphone.

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The Art Offends

Yazmany Arboleda | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Assassination of Barack Obama, Art, Nypd, Richard Prince, Secret Service, The Assassination of Hillary Clinton, Censorship, Art and Politics, Political Art, Barack Obama, Politics News

My two installations, "The Assassination of Barack Obama" and "The Assassination of Hillary Clinton" made headlines when law officials detained me over the use of the word "assassination."

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China Blocks Comedy Central Site Ahead of Games

Huffington Post | David Flumenbaum | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Beijing Olympics, Comedy Central, China Censorship, Censorship, Olympics, Media News

Comedy Central fans in the Middle Kingdom will have to do without Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and South Park for the next couple months, at least unt...

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I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take It Any More

Norman Horowitz | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Big Brother, Media Consolidation, Radio, The Fairness Doctrine, Media, Censorship, Media News

Certainly I do not want the government defining "fairness". What could be more frightening then the government trying to impose their definition of "fairness" on America's radio stations?

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