Censorship

(see also Media & War, Attack on Civil Liberties & Defending Civil Liberties)

Basics

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

Censorship Pages.

Committee to Protect Journalists.

Consortium for Independent Journalism.

Index on Censorship (invaluable online publication).

National Coalition Against Censorship.

Project Censored. Based at Sonoma State U., works to educate public about importance of independent journalism to democratic society, report news not covered, & explain why. See for archive of its Censored Alert! newletter.

In the Library: Articles

Johnston, Rosemary. “Journalist quit in protest of newspapers’ policies,” National Catholic Reporter (3/31/00):13.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Brasch, Walter & Dana R. Ulloth. The Press & the State: Sociohistorical & Contemporary Interpretations (Lanham MD: U. Press of America, 1986).

Canadian Association of Journalists. Project Censored Canada: Researching the Nation's News Agenda (Burnaby BC: The Project, 1994).

Carmilly-Weinberger, Moshe. Fear of Art: Censorship & Freedom of Expression in Art (NY: Bowker, 1986).

Collins, Ronald K. L. The Trials of Lenny Bruce : The Fall & Rise of an American Icon (Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Media Fusion, 2002).

De Grazia, Edward. Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity & the Assault of Genius (NY: Random House, 1992).

Delfattore, Joan. What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Texbook Censorship in America (New Haven: Yale, 1992).

Demac, Donna. Liberty Denied: The Current Rise of Censorship in America (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers, 1990).

Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga & Edwin P. Hoyt. Censorship in America (NY: Seabury, 1970).

__________. Freedom of the News Media (NY: Seabury, 1973).

Jensen, Carl & Project Censored. Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News -- & Why. The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook (NY: Seven Stories, 1995).

__________. Censored: The News that Didn't Make the News, & Why, the 1996 Project Censored Yearbook (NY: Seven Stories, 1996).

__________. 20 Years of Censored News (NY: Seven Stories, 1997).

de Jonghe, N. Politics, Prudery & Perversions: The Censorship of the English Stage (London: Methuen, 2001).

Marsh, Dave. 50 Ways to Fight Censorship (NY: Thunder's Mouth, 1991).

New York Public Library. Censorship: 500 Years of Conflict (NY, 1984).

Phillips, Peter & Project Censored. Censored 1997: The News that Didn't Make the News (NY: Seven Stories, 1997).

__________. Censored 1998: The News that Didn't Make the News (NY: Seven Stories, 1998).

__________. Censored 2001: 25 Years of Censored News (NY: Seven Stories, 2001).

__________. Censored 2003: The Top 25 Censored Stories (NY: Seven Stories, 2002).

Rolph, C.H. The Trial of Lady Chatterley (NY: Penguin, 1966).

Smith, Anne-Marie. A Forced Agreement: Press Acquiescence to Censorship in Brazil (Pittsburgh: U. Pittsburgh, 1997).

Soley, Lawrence. Censorship Inc.: The Corporate Threat to Free Speech in the US (NY: Monthly Review, 2002).

In the Library: Fiction

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Photography

CD & Audio

Film & Video

"Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free?" [1999], dir. Steve Keller, 57m. From Off the Couch Films.