Table of Contents
Issue #2 as well as supplement added at the end.
Communication Research Trends:
Censorship in the Media
vol. 2 no. 2 1981
Research Trends in Religious Communication:
Freedom of Expression in the Church
vol. 2 no. 2 1981
Abstract
The principle of freedom of expression in the press, book publishing and broadcasting has been one of the hard-won battles in human history. Without this freedom, a democratic society,, could not exist. Yet every community and nation has to make painful decisions about what will, or will not be communicated. Libel and privacy are obvious examples. Otherwise our societies would virtually disintegrate. Does freedom of speech have limits? If so, how do we decide on these limits?
New forms of censorship are always creeping in. Currently it is insinuated that consumer protection groups such as Action for Children's Television in the United States are censors in disguise. ACT itself is accusing the fundamentalist religious group, Moral Majority, of censorship goals. What are the norms for judging who is a censor?
This issue reviews some of the profoundly new patterns of thinking about freedom and censorship that have emerged in the last generation and the debate that surrounds the new logic fort defending freedom of expression.
Recommended Citation
(1981)
"Censorship in the Media,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 2:
No.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol2/iss2/1
