Censorship

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
Greg Mitchell

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
Jayne Lyn Stahl

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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The Mohammad Cartoons Then and Now: Defending Satire

Joel Whitney | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media

Read More: New Yorker Cartoonist, New Yorker Cover Obamas, New Yorker, Censorship, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Media News
Joel Whitney

Even if we were offended by the New Yorker cover, we all must speak up for the right to offend. Discussions of "taste" or "respect" are insidious code words for censorship.

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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
Michael Shaw

2008-07-09-shaw_time_censorship.jpgLast 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
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess

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
Richard LaGravenese

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
Danny Schechter

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
Samara O'Shea

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
Allison Kilkenny

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
Yazmany Arboleda

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
Norman Horowitz

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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Olympic Ambush Watch: Athletes, Tattoos, T-Shirts and Amnesty International

Monroe Price | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Australia, Athletes, Beijing, Darfur, Protest, Censorship, Ioc, Amnesty International, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Rogge, Media News
Monroe Price

If athletes genuinely want to express their opinion, that's fine. But let's not forget, there is also the right not to express an opinion. Athletes should feel no moral obligation to speak out.

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Covering the Beijing Games? Expect to be Censored

Bob Dietz | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: China Olympics, China Censorship, Beijing Olympics, Censorship, Olympics, 2008 Olympics, Media News
Bob Dietz

The Chinese media is arguably more restricted now than it was when China was awarded the Games, and it is not realistic to expect that it will change before the Olympics.

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Right-wing Goes After John Cusack

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Freedom of Speech, Censorship, War Inc., War Profiteering, John Cusack, Blackwater, Right-Wing Smear, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

With the helpful panning of the corporate press as proof, the right-wing is trying make the film seem to be a total flop, despite the grassroots success that it actually is.

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Many Scott McClellans

Malou Innocent | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Suppressing Dissent, Richard Clarke, Scott Mcclellan, Censorship, Scott McClellan Book, George W. Bush, Politics News
Malou Innocent

The blowback from McClellan's tell-all illustrates the administration's intolerance of dissent. The lesson to take away is that no president can govern effectively if they take criticism as disloyalty.

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We've Met the Enemy and it is the Messenger

Leslie Harris and John Morris | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, War on Terror, Youtube, Joe Lieberman, Lieberman Youtube, Censorship, Media News
Leslie Harris and John Morris

Online service providers are not government gatekeepers. Prior review of YouTube user content -- as Lieberman demanded -- is not just unworkable, it would write an end to the Internet's essential openness.

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Journalism's "Olympic Truce" with China?

Monroe Price | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Earthquake, China, Censorship, Olympics, Ioc, Ifj, Media News
Monroe Price

Now, possibly it's mutual pullback time. The earthquake helps for China's repositioning of the temperature of its newspaper reporting.

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Glitch-Plagued Clinton Facebook Group Cries Foul; Obama Page Glitch Free

Will Bower | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Hillary, Obama, Facebook, Censorship, Clinton, Home News
Will Bower

"We are dumbfounded... Offensive messages on our boards run rampant. The Obama group is able to efficiently remove them since they have numerous moderators... We expect equal treatment."

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CBS Affiliate Censors Tony Awards Coverage, Blocks Song Called "We Just Had Sex"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media

Read More: WCBS, We Just Had Sex Passing Strange, We Just Had Sex, Tony Awards, Cbs, Passing Strange, Censorship, Media News

WCBS-TV, New York's CBS affiliate station, has canceled a pre-Tony Awards performance of a song called "We Just Had Sex" from the musical "Passing Str...

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Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks

Sam Harris | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cair, Radical Islam, Freedom of Speach, Geert Wilders, Danish Cartoon Scandal, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Jihadism, Muslims, Kurt Westergaard, Washington Post, Censorship, Fitna, Politics News
Sam Harris

In a thrillingly ironic turn of events, a shorter version of this essay was originally commissioned by the opinion page of the Washington Post and then rejected because it was deemed too critical of Islam.

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Caught On Camera: GOP Tosses Journalist

The Uptake | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Journalists, Politics, Blogger, Video, Minnesota, Citizen Journalism, New Media, Freedom of Press, 2008 Election, Offthebus, MN Republican Video, Republican MN Press, Censorship, MN Republicans, Home News
The Uptake

Republicans in Minnesota have grown increasingly belligerent in keeping journalist video and audio equipment out of Republican events. The latest incident was nevertheless caught on tape.

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