How dare people suggest that there is censorship and state control over all media in China and that the Chinese people are uneducated about what really happens in the world.
Anyone who had read the latest press release from the Chinese official news agency will see that the Chinese Government exercise no control over the media because it every single person in the world knows, as the Chinese claim, that the Dalai Lama is the enemy of human rights and not even Nancy Pelosi's children like her !
All hail the people's Republic for its munificent benevolence to the workers !!!
(Please note, I am being ironic)
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3/16/2008
Liverpool film smoking ban is ludicrous
Liverpool is, according to reports, the lung cancer capital of Britain. Not a nice statistics I am sure. But simply slapping an 18 certificate on any film depicting smoking is not going to sort that statistic out.
Liverpool City Council are supporting moves by the group Smoke Free Liverpool to put an automatic 18 certificate on every film featuring images of smoking, even retrospectively, meaning that any film used in schools to support English literature (the likes of "To kill a Mockingbird", for example), would also be banned from schools.
Modern films set in a contemporary setting will, of course, have virtually no smoking in them because in the US and in the UK and most of Europe now, smoking in bars, restaurants, etc, is banned, so Liverpool should have no need to ban these. But the threat to go back and effectively ban hundreds of classic films from being used to support teaching in schools seems crazy.
Liverpool City Council are supporting moves by the group Smoke Free Liverpool to put an automatic 18 certificate on every film featuring images of smoking, even retrospectively, meaning that any film used in schools to support English literature (the likes of "To kill a Mockingbird", for example), would also be banned from schools.
Modern films set in a contemporary setting will, of course, have virtually no smoking in them because in the US and in the UK and most of Europe now, smoking in bars, restaurants, etc, is banned, so Liverpool should have no need to ban these. But the threat to go back and effectively ban hundreds of classic films from being used to support teaching in schools seems crazy.
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