It's funny to me that the most censorship I have experienced on tribe is the journalists tribe. I find that self censorship is one of the worst things for writers, but I don't have a pulitzer. What do y'all think of censorship in the US Media today? It seems advertisers play a role in that. Any thoughts? Or do we need to call in the TOU guy and go back to sleep. Where I work, they literally kill you if
they don't like what you write.
Definitions of censorship on the Web:
* censoring: counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
* censoring: deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Censorship is the systematic use of group power to broadly control freedom of speech and expression, largely in regard to secretive matters. Sanitization (cleaning or decontamination) and whitewashing (from whitewash) are almost interchangeable terms that refer to particular acts or campaigns of censorship or omission which seek to "clean up" the portrayal of particular issues and facts which are already known, but which may conflict with a presented point of view.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
* broadly, any government restrictions on speech or writing; more precisely, government restrictions on forms of expression before they are disseminated
www.imuna.org/c2c/app_a.html
* The act of hiding, removing, altering or destroying copies of art or writing so that general public access to it is partially or completely limited. Contrast with bowdlerization. Click here to download a PDF handout discussing censorship in great detail. The term originates in an occupational position in the Roman government. After the fifth century BCE, Rome commissioned "censors. ...
web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_C.html
* The practice of suppressing a text or part of a text that is considered objectionable according to certain standards.
www.medialit.org/reading_roo...icle565.html
* Changes required of a movie by some person or body other than the studio or the filmmakers, usually a national or regional film classification board. See also certificate.
www.teako170.com/glossary2.html
* A film for theatrical release is reviewed by a film classification board which may request certain changes before release will be allowed, or allowed under a certain age rating.
www.soyouwannasellascript.com/sourc...ry.cfm
they don't like what you write.
Definitions of censorship on the Web:
* censoring: counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
* censoring: deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Censorship is the systematic use of group power to broadly control freedom of speech and expression, largely in regard to secretive matters. Sanitization (cleaning or decontamination) and whitewashing (from whitewash) are almost interchangeable terms that refer to particular acts or campaigns of censorship or omission which seek to "clean up" the portrayal of particular issues and facts which are already known, but which may conflict with a presented point of view.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
* broadly, any government restrictions on speech or writing; more precisely, government restrictions on forms of expression before they are disseminated
www.imuna.org/c2c/app_a.html
* The act of hiding, removing, altering or destroying copies of art or writing so that general public access to it is partially or completely limited. Contrast with bowdlerization. Click here to download a PDF handout discussing censorship in great detail. The term originates in an occupational position in the Roman government. After the fifth century BCE, Rome commissioned "censors. ...
web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_C.html
* The practice of suppressing a text or part of a text that is considered objectionable according to certain standards.
www.medialit.org/reading_roo...icle565.html
* Changes required of a movie by some person or body other than the studio or the filmmakers, usually a national or regional film classification board. See also certificate.
www.teako170.com/glossary2.html
* A film for theatrical release is reviewed by a film classification board which may request certain changes before release will be allowed, or allowed under a certain age rating.
www.soyouwannasellascript.com/sourc...ry.cfm