Do you know anything important, like a government plan or a speech that was ever censored?

Question

i have to find something that was censored to america's people.

any time period, just as long as it has to do with censorship in america.

Answer 1

Yes. The USS Indianapolis, a U.S. Navy cruiser, was sunk by a Japanese submarine in the last days of World War Two in the Pacific. The story of her sinking did not appear in the newspapers until August 15th or 16th of 1945, after the Japanese had announced they were surrendering and the war was over. This was wartime censorship and was a common practice in both World Wars.

Answer 2

The American media is the biggest censor of all.  Check out my blog for *some* of the successes and humanitarian deeds being done in Iraq and Afghanistan and then read from the news media for the same days of the same areas.  The American pulblic is only being given the negatives.  It is censorship by the media, not by the government and they have an agenda; financial and political for the stories they choose to cover/not cover.

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-DfkctJU7d...

Answer 3

Yes. There was a scene in a movie called THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK, during a tribal council meeting, where the Indians are angry about the U.S. government's arrest of one of their members who was starving and shot a deer to feed his starving family, claiming he did it out of hunting season, while the same government officials (senators, congressmen, judges, high-powered businessmen) were doing the same deer hunting on Indian land, illegally.

At one point, the white man who represented the BIA says to the assembly, "What Congress declared was a bill giving you self-determination."

At that point, a famous Indian medicine man named Rolling Thunder (whom I was actually acquainted with) stood up and bellowed, "HAH! Congress is a bunch of filthy, rotten, lying thieves!"

   Well, it made it onto the theatrical release, but when the film first ran on TV, Reagan had just moved in to The White House, and was already making his contempt for Indians known. His administration pressured the network into cutting out that line.

And they did.

There was no profanity, no hate-speech, just a citizen standing up and pointing-out a political truth. And our government censored it. The same thing happened on Saturday Night Live when guest host Sam Kinison's ranting routine was heavily bleeped (also during the Reagan Administration) while he was using comedy to severely criticize the federal government. It's one of the only times SNL was ever censored.