television & radio censorship

This page provides a perspective on online censorship by looking at television and radio censorship. 

It covers -

• introduction
• war and peace

There is a valuable historical overview in Jonathan Coopersmith's 1998 paper on Pornography, Technology, and Progress (PDF).

Jonathan Wallace's Pervasive Problem is an article on recent US Supreme Court decisions about censorship of radio broadcasts (don't use the F word) as a model for online content regulation. As we noted earlier, keeping the airwaves free from nastiness is a task for Australia's ABA. 

Heather Hendershot's Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation Before the V-Chip (Durham: Duke Uni Press 1998), Kathryn Montgomery's Target: Prime Time - Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over Entertainment Television (New York: Oxford Uni Press 1989), Geoffrey Cowan's See No Evil: the Backstage Battle over Sex and Violence on Television (New York: Simon & Schuster 1979) and Robert Corn-Revere's Rationales & Rationalizations: Regulating The Electronic Media (Washington: Media Institute 1997) offer a US perspective.

Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II (Chapel Hill: Uni of North Carolina Press 2001) by Michael Sweeney

















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