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Re: What Censorship Isn't
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:24:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy P. Smith wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Does that apply to pay-to-view television channels too? If they purposefully
leave out bits of news is it not censorship?
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Every news show leaves out bits of news. Is all news censored?
Every library excludes some books. Is that censorship?
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Censorship implies a bit more active restriction, I think. Censorship of the
news would be when a party involved in delivering the news attempts to delivery
a particular piece of news but is denied by their editor, manager, network, the
FCC, or what-have-you.
Again, I think this gets into the gray area. When a reporter gets told by their
manager that “nah, I don’t think we want to run that story you did about the
birthday party at the nursing home because we want to give priority to this
other news story”, that’s *technically* censorship. But we wouldn’t usually
*call* it censorship, because we reserve that word for more severe restrictions.
Typically, we reserve it for instances where certain people are adamant about
publishing information, but are denied against their wishes. In the above case,
chances are the reporter would totally understand, and, while perhaps a little
mifffed, it’s no big deal to them. But if they were instead crazily insistant
that their story was important and ought to have been aired, then we’re starting
to get (in my book) bona fide censorship.
DaveE
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| (...) Hey, that's pretty good. In essence, omission is not censorship; restriction is. That works at least in the public arena, but it still doesn't apply IMO to a private forum. Still, it's a good rule of thumb. Dave! (18 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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