02-28-2004, 11:54 PM
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Bush says goodbye to freedom of press
New York Times article
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Writers often grumble about the criminal things editors do to their prose. The federal government has recently weighed in on the same issue ? literally.
It has warned publishers they may face grave legal consequences for editing manuscripts from Iran and other disfavored nations, on the ground that such tinkering amounts to trading with the enemy.
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Nahid Mozaffari, a scholar and editor specializing in literature from Iran, called the implications staggering. "A story, a poem, an article on history, archaeology, linguistics, engineering, physics, mathematics, or any other area of knowledge cannot be translated, and even if submitted in English, cannot be edited in the U.S.," she said.
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I wonder what this administration is gonna do next. It's unbelievable.
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