Censorship, Propaganda-TV, Globes & Robins

摘要

In 1927, the BBC's Director-General, John Reith, attempted to explain to the listening public, in his usual rather rambling manner, the difficulties involved with censorship of programmes. He stated: "The peculiar nature of broadcasting - open to all to hear, yet individual and intimate in its approach - inevitably transfers the choice, within the stock of available and technically manageable material, from the listener himself to the broadcaster. "The theatre manager, the editor, the preacher, deal each with his own public rather than the public, and the prima facie interest of the audience. To impose limits upon the freedom of such publicists, therefore, is sheer censorship, to be justified or not as such.