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-------. Press Commission Suggestions. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1961. 4p. (Publication no. 68) M607
A review of the various proposals for establishing a press commission in the United States, including proposals of William Benton, Ernest K. Lindley, Harry Ashmore, Gordon Gray, Edward R. Murrow, Roland E. Wolseley, and others.
Murrow, Edward R. "TV and Fear of Controversy." New Republic, 139:11-13, 10 November 1958. M608
In an address before the Association of Radio and Television News Directors, Murrow criticizes the timidity of the networks. While not advocating "a 27- inch wailing wall" he writes, "I would just like to see it [television] reflect, occasionally, the hard, unyielding realities of the world in which we live. I would like to see it done inside the existing framework, and I would like to see the doing of it redound to the credit of those who finance and program it."
"Murrow's TV Program Exposes Book Banning." Library Journal, 80:1245-46, 15 May 1955. M609
Murry, J. Middleton. "An Immortal Pamphlet: The Charter of the Fourth Estate." Aryan Path, 33:483-88, November 1962. (First published in Aryan Path, November 1944) M610
A tribute to John Milton's Areopagitica, on the 3ooth anniversary of that classic on freedom of the press.
Murthy, N. V. K. "Freedom of the Press and Fair Trial in the U.S.A." Journalism Quarterly, 36:307-13, Summer 1959. M611
An Indian scholar, examining cases in the United States and Great Britain, believes that "the balance between the concepts of free press and free trial is an extremely delicate one, but it can be maintained if both press and the judiciary recognize their fundamental identity of purpose."
Mussey, Henry R. "The Christian Science Censor." Nation, 130:147-49, 5 February 1930; 130:175-78, 12 February 1930; 130:241-43, 26 February 1930; and 130:291-93, 12 March 1930. (Reprinted in Beman, Censorship of Speech and the Press, pp. 22-26) M612
The first article in the series, The Machinery of Suppression, deals with the structure of the "smoothest- running publicity (and anti- publicity) machine operated in the United States during the twentieth century" and particularly with the work of the Church's Committee on Publication. The second article, Obnoxious Books, deals with efforts of the Committee to suppress unfavorable biographies of Mary Baker Eddy. The third article, Freedom of the Press, deals with activities of local Committees in monitoring local news and radio stories to seek "corrections" of articles unfavorable to the Church. The fourth article reviews efforts of the Church to suppress Dakin's biography of Mrs. Eddy, through a nationwide boycott of booksellers who did not yield to the request that the book be withdrawn from sale.
"Must We Go to Jail?" North American Review, 206:673-77, November 1917. M613
The author considers the Espionage Act, insofar as it prohibits publication of any matter of a seditious nature, "wicked, vicious, tyrannous, and ought never to have been enacted." He suggests that Postmaster-General Burleson study the First Amendment and reflect on the fate of John Adams when he tampered with freedom of the press.
Muzzey, David S. "John Milton - an Apostle of Liberty." Ethical Addresses, 16:93-112, December 1908. M614
[Myers, Allen O.]. "Contempt." Weekly Law Bulletin, 19:302-15, 7 May 1888. M615
The case against Allen O. Myers, convicted of contempt of court because his letter, appearing in the Cincinnati Enquirer, charged packing of the grand jury (State of Ohio v. Allen O. Myers). In the article the author reviews the law of contempt by newspapers.
Myers, Paul. "The Blue Hand of Censorship." Theatre Time, 1:62-64, Summer 1949. M616
"Since 1948 there have been growing indications that considerable pressure is being brought to bear upon legislative bodies and - in turn - upon artistic expression." There is as much danger in threatened use of the blue pencil as in actual exercise. References are made to censors at work in such cities as Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, where there is an official censorship. Philadelphia is the city in which "the most recent abuse has taken place," the barring of Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute.
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