Self-censorship on your local station
A New York Times editorial on broadcasters’ growing tendency to self-censor points to weak-kneed decisions by public broadcasters: WBAI’s retreat from broadcasting Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” and PBS’s editing of swear-words from The War.
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