Trick or Treat Radio Episode 119 - Sick Little Censorship
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Unnecessary Censorship in League of Legends Part 5
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Rang Rasiyais not a consistent film, but one that tells a story of a pioneering artist and visionary, a story decidedly worth telling, says Raja Sen.
Censorship is an utterly pointless and regressive activity, and we Indians have always been good at it.
Good at said pointlessness, that is, not at actually establishing some sort of sensible organisation that knows the meaning of the word 'context'.
Ketan Mehta's film Rang Rasiya, a biopic of the artist Raja Ravi Varma, deals with artistic censorship, a subject that remains immensely relevant in a country where filmmakers are asked to cut out dialogues and trim scenes by 20 percent just cause the censor board said so.
The movie opens with a courtroom scene, one that reminded me of Howl, the James Franco-starrer about Allen Ginsberg's obscenity trial.A compelling film, it concentrated on the fascinating case -- recreating preposterous but real-life court transcripts -- and, on the side, explored the beat poet's life, love and history.
The story, however, was always the trial and I wish Mehta too had kept the courtroom front and centre in his film instead of trying to give us a concise life-and-times or a treatise on censorship instead of both.
That is the fundamental issue with Rang Rasiya: it starts off as a condensed biopic, theatrically moving from one milestone in the artists life to another, with scarcely any time to breathe.
It is a fascinating life, sure, but this narrative progression -- with long stretches devoted to mediocre songs and dramatic moments constantly underscored by overdone background music -- plays out like a school play, with bad costumes, clunky lines and no detailing.
Randeep Hooda, who plays Raja Ravi Varma, is solid but the film around him is eye-rollingly overdone. Like the books we see as background in a study, leatherbound hardbacks with nothing written on them to distinguish one from the other, the film appears spineless.
Thankfully, the second half of the film, where the courtroom battle comes more sharply into focus and the narrative of his life actually gets going, is genuinely interesting. Portions where the artist took an interest in the cinema, for example, bustle with energy. Even the background score gets jauntier.
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Chinese media censorship - Discussion in English
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CLAYTON St. Louis County police released audiotapes Wednesday they say bolster their contention that restrictions on flights over Ferguson protests for 11 days in August were about safety and not news censorship.
The Associated Press reported Monday that tapes of discussions between police and the Federal Aviation Administration suggest that a Temporary Flight Restriction was sought to keep out news helicopters.
Capt. Kurt Frisz, who was scene commander in Ferguson at the time, said he realized the conversations were subject to that interpretation, but he insisted that it was really about safety in the face of potential gunfire and laser interference.
A complication, he said, was that his concerns were relayed to Ed Kunz of the FAA in Kansas City through a third person, police dispatching supervisor Chris Trittler.
Police said they received a 911 call at 11:10 p.m. Aug. 10 reporting that protesters were aiming guns at police helicopters. Officials also provided a report from a police pilot of a potentially blinding laser strike, and three audio clips of phone conversations between Frisz and Trittler, and between Trittler and Kunz.
Frisz said he wished he would have had time to talk directly to Kunz and avoid Trittlers speculation that the move was done to keep the news media out.
In the recordings, Kunz and Trittler discuss Friszs request for an 8,000-foot flight minimum that Kunz calls a little higher than normal. Concerned about possible impact on operations at nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Kunz asks, So hes OK with commercial aircraft transiting area if they need to, so this is a restriction to keep the media out, is that correct?
Trittler replies, He didnt state that, but that would be my guess. He adds, Were doing extra patrols in a three-mile radius and our helicopter is doing extra patrols. I really dont know, but if I had to guess, I would guess that it would be for the news more than anything else, but that would just be speculation on my part.
Frisz, himself a pilot, cited serious safety threats Wednesday, saying, People shooting at a helicopter are not going to know the difference between a media helicopter and a police helicopter. He added, I made the decision to request a TFR ... to reduce the number of targets in the air and allow law enforcement more latitude to maneuver in the airspace safely and reduce their visibility and vulnerability.
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta issued a statement Monday saying no news media had objected to any of the restrictions. It says, in part, When local law enforcement reports a danger to aircraft, including guns fired into the air that could impact low flying aircraft, the FAA will always err on the side of safety.
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St. Louis County police say safety, not censorship, led to call to close Ferguson airspace