Films and Broadcasts Demeaning Ethnic, Racial, Or Religious Groups--1971: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on H. Con. Res. 9 and H. Con. Res. 182 ... April 27 and 28, 1971U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 67 Seiten |
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Seite 40 - These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of- force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
Seite 40 - ... depravity, criminality, unchastity, or lack of virtue of a class of citizens, of any race, color, creed or religion which said publication or exhibition exposes the citizens of any race, color, creed or religion to contempt, derision, or obloquy or which is productive of breach of the peace or riots.
Seite 41 - Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea. That is why freedom of speech, though not absolute, is nevertheless protected...
Seite 30 - I would like to thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee for giving me the opportunity to speak...
Seite 40 - [i]t is firmly settled that under our Constitution the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers,
Seite 41 - US 1, 4-5 (1949) : [A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.
Seite 41 - The man who knows that he must bring forth proof and persuade another of the lawfulness of his conduct necessarily must steer far wider of the unlawful zone than if the State must bear these burdens.
Seite 50 - TV commercials and magazine advertisements of the type referred to. asserts Dr. Thomas Martinez, a Stanford University professor, "symbolically reaffirms the inferior social status of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the eyes of the audience. Exaggerated Mexican racial and cultural characteristics, together with some outright misconceptions concerning their way of life, symbolically suggest to the audience that such people are comical, lazy, and thieving, who want what the Anglos can have by virtue...
Seite 67 - Practices staff does-at every step of the television production process. The ultimate effect of the prescreening proposal would then be to inject the NAB into the planning, writing, filming and editing of all television network programs. In a medium which is expected to be all things to all people regardless of age, upbringing or education, the line separating propriety from creativity is thin at best. An outside agency wielding the blue pencil would throttle the creative impulses which are essential...
Seite 66 - Authority would be just that — outside consultation, and unobjectionable so long as it stops short of external control. But you know how exposed the broadcaster is to government influence and authority. It is because broadcasters are licensed by the Federal government and accountable to it that your proposal cannot be viewed as outside consultation. . . Were CBS to share the responsibility for , its program decisions with the National Association of Broadcasters, it would only be a matter of time...