While US media censorship has gained recent attention as a result of Janet Jackson’s exposure on live television, and the careful attention paid to what information is aired in terms of the Iraq war, censorship is no new issue. Censorship laws within the media have existed for decades, gaining specificity and stringency as an apparent ...
Music Censorship is any discriminatory act that advocates or allows the suppression, control, or banning of music or music related works against the wishes of its creator or intended audience (Nuzum 7). Supporters of music censorship argue that it will protect listeners from vice pollution. Those against censorship feel that it infringes on an artist’s ...
Benjamin Franklin once said, “If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” It is impossible for any author to think of everyone who might pick up their books. It is impossible for any author to worry about every single reaction ...
Take a look at a list of commonly banned books and one can see connections between many of them. Most attempted bans are based on four arguments. These are political, sexual, religious and social grounds for banning. 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature is broken into sections dealing with each of these four ...
Is America capable of handling the truth? Censorship has always been a part of society. Now, in the digital age we live in now with continual access to the television or Internet for sources of information, there is now a plethora of unprocessed, unfiltered data that could contain anything especially on the internet in which ...
If you know of specific instances of censorship in scientific research, then you know the consequences can be infinite. When an educational institution or pharmaceutical company or research organization falsifies data to meet the ideological desires of a benefactor, the censorship can influence millions of people and change the face of the future forever. For ...
