Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Censorship Reforms
- Reforms made
- Newspapers, books and periodicals no longer had to submit work to be censored
- Preventive Censorship
- Newspapers could discuss government policy
- Editors were given more freedom
- Advantages
- Relaxation of censorship led to
a rapid increase in the no. of
works published
- Bolder writers and editors were able
to push the boundary on sensitive
topics
- Allowed court cases to be reported
- The public was becoming
more informed
- Disadvantages
- Some journals were overly radical or critical of the regime
- The Ministry of Interior
did come close to shutting
down some publishers
- Social issues wre reported which the
regime did not want exposed
- Alcholism
- Crime
- Peasant suffering