July 30, 1999

The Danger of Seeing Movies Through a Censor's Eyes

By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

Since the shootings at schools in Littleton, Colo., and elsewhere, the government has focused on the media -- particularly film, television, and computer games -- as potentially troublesome influences on young minds. President Clinton recently directed the U.S. Department of Justice to "study" whether the movie industry was violating its own voluntary ratings code -- the study's implicit threat being that the code

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