But in the early 1970s, PBS thought American audiences could handle such material.
It sweepingly prohibits disclosure of "intelligence activities" without distinguishing among different levels of classification that are used every day by the 4.8 million people authorized to handle such material.
If you're unsure how to handle such material, talk to your editor.
BBC News has a strong track record of using content from non-traditional sources, and of stopping numerous examples of incorrect material making it to air or online - but it does underline the need to handle such material with great care.
Despite the absence of sudden and dramatic symptoms, anyone who handles such materials is unquestionably storing up toxic materials in his body.
In response to the report, a lawyer for Mr. Gonzales, George J. Terwilliger III, said Mr. Gonzales acknowledged responsibility for not properly securing the materials but "categorically denies that he handled such materials with conscious disregard" for the proper procedures.
Here one feels that Mr. Gould is retreading old ground; he and others have handled such material elsewhere.
Anyone handling such material runs the risk of reprising "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which, however effective it was as propaganda, has no real claim to the truth of art.
On the contrary, it is romantic, subjective art, primarily because the writer handles such material instinctively and subjectively, approaches it as the "collective unconscious," to use the term of the psychologist Carl Jung, rather than with deliberate rationality.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay engages directly with these positions, as Elena begins writing about the sociopolitical turmoil of the so-called Years of Lead and reflects on both her own insecurity in handling such material and her envy of male writers who seem to do so with an arrogant ease.
