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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Richard Adams

Destroyed by madness

Fifty years ago, Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl was deemed to be fit and proper in a landmark freedom of speech court decision. Yet today, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, a New York public broadcasting station has "decided not to air the poem, fearing that the Federal Communications Commission will find it indecent".

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