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- 151: Mass Media And Public Opinion
- ... unfortunate bond between monopolies and the government constructs a cocoon from reality. Revealing all of the necessary news to promote a more beneficial corporation, and instilling a satisfaction in the viewer while subjecting everything to censorship is what occurs. Anything too exposing is usually discovered and denied before it reaches majority of society. An example of this is the Iraqi war. As people watched the goings on in front of their ... deeper into our cocoon unless we do something about it. This problem is not a priority of our society's to change but if we did, many important issues would be revealed more thoroughly without censorship.
- 152: The Evolution of the First Amendment
- ... free expression is not absolute, it must be constantly protected against official depredations. Today, artistic expression is under attack, as some groups of citizens seek to impose their morality on the rest of society. Book censorship in the public schools, mandatory record labeling, as well as obscenity prosecutions of rappers, record distributors and museum directors, are all displays of suppression effort. Artists, performers and authors now occupy the same weak position ... 1950s. TV networks and local stations as well as large newspapers owned by fewer and fewer large corporations with less and less concern for journalism or public discourse claim absolute protection not only from government censorship but also from any claims to access by the people. Although these media corporations monopolize the market place of ideas, the courts tend to protect them against demands for popular access, as if the major ...
- 153: How Has Film Influenced Lifestyles And Human Behavior In The
- ... Depression period. They also provided escape entertainment to boost the morale of the public by optimistically reaffirming values such as thrift and perseverance. During The Golden Age of Hollywood, movies were under strict enforcement and censorship. Film studios submitted their films for review and if they met the strict standards of decency they could be released. Regulations of the code included censorship of language, references to sex, violence, and morality. Without a seal, films were threatened with negative publicity and potential box-office failure. Movies were not allowed to portray gangsters as heroes. Movies of this time ...
- 154: The Importance of the Press
- ... The ideas of that period did not reach the masses because they were either unable to afford the books, or unable to read them, and most of the time both. It was not until the censorship laws were lifted, that the people really began to get a sense of the corrupt behavior of the monarchical government. In pre revolutionary France, the press was tightly controlled by the King and his government ... representative assembly in 175 years, the Estates-General, which could undercut the authority of the parlements and get the taxes passed. To build up support for this move, and to counteract the anti ministerial pamphlets, censorship restrictions were lifted and all authors were encouraged to publish their ideas about how the Estates- General should proceed.8 In this way the press was able to begin educating the masses on the problems ...
- 155: Freuds Framework Of Dreams
- ... or devices available to the dream-work is displacement, where the most important elements of the latent dream content become insignificant or trivial when depicted in the manifest dream. Using displacement as a form of censorship the dream-work thwarts the emergence of important subconscious impulses and wishes, making them seem meaningless and irrelevant. This shift is administered to both ideas and emotional accentuation in latent dreams in order for sleep to be preserved. Another device used by the dream-work is condensation. This is a process of censorship where several elements (i.e. dream-thoughts) in the latent dream are consolidated or compressed into a single thought, feeling, action, event or person when said dream thoughts emerge in the manifest dream. Consequently, since ...
- 156: Children, TV, and Violence
- ... children. Is the media to take all the blame? Of course not. After all, this is America and I believe nothing more strongly than freedom of speech and expression. The solution to this problem is censorship. Censorship not at the governmental level, nor at the state level, nor at the cable company level, rather at the level of the parents. They and they alone are the ones who need to decide what ...
- 157: Spoken Words Versus Written Words
- ... knows which audience to speak to and not to speak to. The opportunities that speaking offers us that writing cant do is telling the listener about the events that happen during the present time, censorship, and trust from the credibility of the speaker. Through todays technology more and more information is being presented in this world. Thus gives the speaker the upper hand to tell the facts as we speak during the present times. If present time information would be written down today, tomorrow the information may be absolete. Censorship is always a major issue; the speaker gets to express his or her opinions to their intended audience without offending anyone. If the opinions were to be written, their beliefs would open up to the ...
- 158: Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books
- Fahrenheit 451: A World With No Books Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was an interesting Science fiction thriller that provided an odd view on the censorship of books. Not just some books, but all books. An entire distorted culture and civilization where all books are prohibited. And the penalty for being caught with books is that the books must be burned and in some cases the penalty may lead to death. In this tale of censorship and self discovery, Bradbury leads the reader through a short period in the life of the protagonist, Guy Montag. A firefighter struggling with his conscience to determine if a society without books is right. Fahrenheit ...
- 159: Comparison Of Nicholas I And Nicholas Ii
- ... government of the country, and he thought that Russia needed more discipline rather than liberal reform. Nicholas ordered the codification of Russian laws, reformed finances, and attempted to set limits to serfdom. He made the censorship of newspaper and all opinion even stricter than before, and set up a secret police organization with spies throughout the country. These new measures made him and his government unpopular to say the least. Nicholas ... Czars used the same tactics although they both came to different conclusions. Nicholas I killed any whom dare threaten his regime, as did Nicholas II. The reason Nicholas I kept control of his subjects was censorship. The Russian papers never covered the massacres Nicholas I inflicted because the throne ran the Russian papers. While later in the century during Nicholas II reign the press had gained more freedom and underground newspapers ...
- 160: The Internet
- ... the Net. And only a tiny percentage of the population is wired anyway.* Many also think that the internet is an evil tool that offers too much corruption to the world. They believe that additional censorship should be enforced to protect the children of the world. Besides the obvious problems with the internet, such as censorship, there are several political issues that are brought forth daily in attempt to tune-out the internet. Despite the complaints, it looks as though the internet is here to stay. And with millions of additional ...
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