Since the beginning of the "War against Terror", the phenomenon has taken an unprecedented importance in the USA, notably with right-wing news channels, such as Foxnews, deliberately censoring information and following the governemental line. For instance, Fox News started using the term "homicide bomber" instead of "suicide bomber" at White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer's request. Along with fellow News Corporation subsidiary the New York Post and Pravda, it was one of the few major news sources to. People and organisations (Media Matters for America, FAIR, Democracy Now !, ACLU) have raised concerns about the impact this phenomenon might have on the quality of the news and the information of the public in general.
FCC fears force Fox to pixelate cartoon nudity (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/17/obscured.cartoon.ap/index.html) (CNN)
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Thus it is very difficult to determine whether this is a form of economic pressure or voluntary autocensorship.
The most powerful companies today have even more sophisticated means of controlling the media, like elaborate public relations policies, establishing media clubs, special perks for journalists writing in their area (free mobile phones, etc.).
Some media professionals elucidate that "the very appearance of a reporter or an editor at the office of an influential CEO can be considered as a kind of extortion, or make way for autocensorship or subtle forms of influence".
Following this aspect, Tajovský is in his emotional make-up and poetics close to the generation of Slovak modernism.
Autocensorship of the Second and Later Editions of Books in 1950s
One of the side effects of the new cultural situation after the coup d'etat in February 1948 was a return of some authors to their own texts in book editions published after 1945 or a little bit earlier.
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