Archive for the ‘Freedom of the press’ Category
Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - which covers Illinois, along with Michigan and Indiana - has made a decision that could be problematic for student publications. In essence:The court ruled that the Supreme Court’s 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision, permitting censorship on high school student newspapers, applies to ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
So Deep Throat has gone public. The famous source was Deputy FBI Director Mark Felt.That means, incidentally, that the UIUC investigative journalism class got it wrong when they concluded it was Fred Fielding, Deputy Counsel to Nixon. Somehow I don't think that should detract too much, though, from the student ...
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Saturday, May 21st, 2005
"These programmes touch a raw nerve", said the RTUK's head, Fatih Karaca, in support of the closures. "They discuss family, children, marital relations - sensitive topics to Turks - in an indecently open way."If you're interested in the public/private sphere division, women's rights or the role of talk shows in ...
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Via IFEX:As reports trickle in about the indiscriminate killing last weekend of hundreds of protesters in Uzbekistan's northeastern city of Andijan, IFEX members say authorities are maintaining an information blockade by expelling journalists from the town and obstructing foreign television news broadcasts.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports several incidents ...
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
Over at the Tuppenceworth blog Simon has posted a thoughtful and important piece about pending 'security precautions' at the Four Courts in Dublin:The front door to the Four Courts is the symbol of the public's access to justice. It is the physical manifestation of the means by which the citizens ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
The International Federation of Journalists has launched a draft report on attacks on freedom of the press being undertaken in the name of anti-terrorism efforts.
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
Prometheus just forwarded this announcement on their Stubblfefield list:
Montreal, 3 May, 2005. The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), together with media and freedom of expression organizations worldwide today commemorates World Press Freedom Day.
In doing so AMARC is pleased to announce the establishment of an international media observatory ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
So Kalle Lasn of AdBusters - who are currently running another 'TV Turnoff Week' - has entered sports bars in order to turn off the televisions in them (using the TV-B-Gone). Seems to be taking things a little too far - and giving people another reason to dismiss the activities ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
In light of recent debate on whether the US has been targetting journalists, or has just been repeatedly killing journalists by mistake it was interesting to see this post about threats in 2003 against journalists coming up in the 'In Previous Years' section.
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
Independent News and Media have a long-winded legal disclaimer on their site in which they purport to ban links like this one:Hypertext links to this website by other users and websites are permitted provided that the link to this website is in a simple list of companies by pointing to ...
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