Media Censorship In The United States

In the United States, the people don't always get the original story. Censorship is the act of suppressing unacceptable or unmoral parts. Media is censored all over the world for many reasons. Sometimes it is unmoral or is not the "right" religion. Other reasons media is censored is that it is offensive to a race or culture and that it puts the wrong ideas into people's heads. Media censorship has always played a big role in American movies, music, books, and technology.
First, let me give you an overview of film history. The first movie theaters in the United States were called nickelodeons. They were given this name because most admissions for a movie were only a nickel and "odeon" is the Greek word for theater. In June, 1905 the very first
In 1908, The New York Board of Motion Picture Censorship was created. Motion picture producer sent there films in to the board and did not release them unless they had been approved, at least the majority did. The board changes their name to The National Board of Review in 1915 (Robichaux). That same year, the Supreme Court decided that movies were not art because they were produced to make profit. Therefore, films were not protected by the First Amendment. In the case of Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio it was decided that "The exhibition of moving pictures is a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit...not to be regarded, nor intended to be regarded by the Ohio Constitution, we think, as part of the press of the country, or as organs of public opinion
So, a lot of films during that time had a lot of sex, violence, and many other unmoral scenes. This is somewhat the cause of the creation of The Catholic Legion of Decency in 1934. Their main goal was to let the people, specifically other Catholics, know what movies to watch and what not to watch. The rating system they used was an "A" for a film who was morally adequate, a "B" for one that was partly adequate, and "C" for condemned (Durham). In the same year, the SRC was renamed The Production Code Administration, or the PCA, and was headed by Catholic Joseph Breen. Nothing changed until 1952 when the Supreme Court ruled that films were art and were protected by the First Amendment. This meant that movies could not be banned because of their obscene content (Durham). In 1945, the MPPDA was renamed to what we call it today, the Motion Picture Association of America or the MPAA. Later on, the production code was cast