| Show Censorship By Starvation I Censorship of the press can be bo ac accomplished accomplished ac ac- in many ways One of them themis is tighter ever-tighter government control of ad ad- By dictating t to advertisers government indirectly can can control the press An official of the Magazine Publishers Publishers Publishers' Pub Pub- lishers ushers Association warns that in some cases government requirements would convert an ad for a a. a certain product into an ad against that product lie He says Under such government strictures what advertiser would continue to pay for advertising If the government establishes es es- the legal right to destroy the effectiveness of advertising by regulation the government could move from one category of advertising another to as the predilections predilections' of officials dictate The result re re- re sult suit could be t to dry up most of the 10 or 11 billion dollars dollari of annual advertising revenue that now makes possible the wide dissemination of publications at popular prices The press would not cease cease to t exist but its editorial activities would b be pinched back and its prices to readers would go so high that its circulation circulation lation and its influence would dwindle to toa a fraction of their size People have a way way of forgetting that oppression is always clothed in a zealots zealot's concern for the public good As the theM M Magazine g zin Publishers Publishers' Association official concludes I N No 0 one including government govern ment should dictate what must be said or m must st not riot be said in the advertising pages of a free press Under the First Amendment to the US U.S. Constitution at decision must be left to the conscience and judgment of publishers justas just justas as are editorial decisions It |
