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12 Oct, 2007 10:32 am
... was quite interested by their recent decision to produce a nightly BBC News telecast for the American market, which they call BBC World
News America (it also airs later ... and robust also, to quote NYT v. Sullivan), law is not enough. Press protections are necessary but not
sufficient. We still need journalists who are willing to ask ... the BBC World News America blueprint is a courageous one, and as someone that cares about a vibrant and aggressive
free press, I hope it not only succeeds but catches ...
11 Feb, 2008 12:04 am
... law offices south of the border, said George Socha, of Socha Consulting in St. Paul, Minn., who conducts an annual survey on technology used by American law firms. "This is a major deal, a big deal in several ways," said Socha. "There is a lot of prestige associated with landing ... ' offices across
the U.S., he believes. "iConect may be a small company but it is a prominent company within the world of electronic discovery," said Socha. For the complete article, click here. Source:
London Free Press
13 Aug, 2008 7:06 pm
... somewhat subtle is now explicit about Goldsmith's attitude toward a truly independent press. Check out these quotes:Nor does he provide any
reason ... seven years, and too little on the dangers of an unchecked and sometimes irresponsible press. Lichtblau's book has done the country
a service by laying these latter ... he really advocate "external checks" (in the legal sense) on the American press? Hammering on a supposedly irresponsible press is free speech, and
completely fair game. Pining for criminal ...
1 Jun 2:18 pm
I just came across this interesting local sentencing story that seems to involve a lot more than just sentencing law and policy. Here are the basics: Diane Bukowski, a reporter for the
African-American owned Michigan Citizen newspaper, was given one year of probation, 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay $4,000 in
fines Monday morning after being convicted of two felony counts of police obstruction last month. Bukowski was arrested at the scene of a fatal high-speed police chase ...
16 Jan, 2008 8:31 pm
... looked to the Republicans for help. The Republicans, with a voter base in the relatively African-American free North, were willing to use African-Americans as their instrument for containment of the Democratic party in the newly conquered South until the
re- ... 1967. Rutland, Robert Allen. The Democrats, from Jefferson to Carter. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 1979. Scheckel,
Susan. The insistence of the Indian : Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. Princeton, ...
2 Jul, 2008 1:45 pm
... with numerical analysis, despite the fact that I'm a poet--to do [what I imagine is] the first-ever assessment of the openness of American
small presses to unsolicited work. Given the absolute inviolability of the large trade houses to first-book authors, and the admirably ... enter the jetstream of American letters only if we have (to the extent humanly possible, within reason) a free, fair, and open system of
selecting poetry for promotion to the public. At present, one group of writers--poets with ...
17 Sep, 2008 1:45 am
... true, to some extent, that there appears to be emerging a good old fashioned corporatist socialist variant of American free enterprise--it seems that for some entities (selected by federal regulators based on factors that are hardly transparent) ... the world can rest assured
that AIG's commitments will continue to be honored." It should be noted that the remarks made in this press release may contain projections
concerning financial information and statements concerning future economic performance ...
20 Oct, 2008 3:01 pm
... window.google_render_ad(); United States of America (Press Release) October 19, 2008 -- St. Louis injury attorney Joshua P. Myers announces
that he has published a free book for Missourians injured at work. The book, titled "The Ultimate Missouri Work Comp Book," addresses ... Trial
Attorneys, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Illinois State Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice. More
information about him and his practice can be obtained at www.joshmyerslaw ...
1 Feb, 2008 3:41 am
... Rudy Giuliani. Has Fox-News really bet the farm of Rudy Giuliani? Watch and decide for yourself. A free press is vital to any viable republican democracy. But a free press must
be responsible, honest, and fair in order to play its proper role as the fourth estate. Americans need to take a hard look ... monitor Fox-News and identify their distortions and
lies on a daily basis. A free society cannot survive when the media is a shill for a particular political party or movement, especially when
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1 Sep, 2007 9:00 pm
... treatises, and recognize that some of the authors and I may have some deep disagreements: - A Worthy Tradition, by Harry Kalven. - Emergence of a Free Press (updated from the author's Legacy of Suppression), by Leonard Levy. - Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, ... . - The Law of Obscenity, by Frederick F. Schauer. - Also, see the section on First Amendment theory in Laurence
Tribe's American Constitutional Law. - Also, see Gerald Gunther as a source for analysis on free
speech law. As always, I ...
10 Jun, 2008 3:36 pm
... strong public media, and universal access to communications." The tenor of the conference was set by Josh Silver, Executive Director of Free Press, in his opening remarks: "The corporate media are not a watchdog protecting us from the powerful, but ...
and South Dakota, the presidential candidates had spent almost $200 million flooding the television sets of Americans with their campaign messages." In past election cycles,
total spending on political television advertisements (including all local, ...
18 Jun, 2008 5:39 pm
... voters up for grabs, and Barack Obama is toning down his populist rhetoric - at least when it comes to free trade. In an interview with
Fortune to be featured in the magazine's upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee suggests he doesn't ... consistent position as a free-trader. In a press conference in Boston this week, he attacked Obama as protectionist: "Senator Obama said that
he would unilaterally - unilaterally! - renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, where 33
percent ...
23 Jan, 2007 1:52 am
... to challenge the speaker). Serious attempts have even been made by Congress to expand this concept to the internet - the ultimate expression of a free press surpassing the wildest dreams of by the Founding Fathers. Meanwhile, one of those Senators who voted for
the measure is, ... speech out there, and make decisions based on it. That's it. And that attitude is flatly un-democratic and un-American. The
only regulation we should see on political speech is transparency and reporting. Let's keep the ...
24 May, 2007 9:22 am
... of show American Idol is. Your brand is not what you say it is. Your brand is what the public says your brand is. Is American Idol a singing contest? A performance contest? A popularity contest? A variety show? As it currently stands, I would argue that ... I correctly
picked the bottom singer each week this season. I was twelve for twelve. (See chart below.) This stuff is free press, and American Idol should leverage it. There is already a singing contest (ostensibly), a song-writing
contest, a ...
6 Oct, 2007 8:12 am
Detroit Free Press: "Today is German-American Day, and the
president said so. It's also Get Organized Week, Eat Country Ham Month, Car Care ... , and in doing so, helped shape that life dramatically. (...) Nearly 43 million Americans -
about 15% of respondents - listed German as their primary cultural heritage in 2000. Philadelphia ... " and more. The organizers also quote Ronald Reagan, who proclaimed the first
German-American Day: Few people have blended so completely into the multicultural tapestry of ...
14 Jul 6:31 am
Jon Fortt of Big Tech blog at money.cnn.com reported yesterday that Microsoft was getting ready to announce that their latest version of Microsoft Office will become available online
for free to anyone with a Live account. It seems that Microsoft didn't really have much choice when it came to pricing given the other
free or inexpensive alternatives from Google, Zoho, Apple and Adobe. Read more about the launch here, here and here.
5 Nov, 2008 11:12 am
... yesterday, California's Proposition 8 - a measure to ban same-sex marriage - arguably got the most press. (Prop. 8 passed by a margin of
about 4%.) WSJ But voters in states around the country cast ... favored sanctioning the use of medical marijuana to treat debilitating illness Tuesday, apparently rejecting arguments
that doing so would increase crime and juvenile drug use. (Detroit Free-Press) Both the Massachusetts
and Michigan initiatives were backed by the Marijuana Policy Project, a group ...
1 Oct, 2008 7:51 am
The First Amendment Center's 2008 State of the First Amendment survey questioned adults on their attitudes and opinions about free expression,
a free press and religious liberty. The survey found that this year: 39% would extend to subscription
cable and...
24 Sep, 2007 10:14 am
... 7:2 (2d ed.). At an earlier setting, Patricia D. Struck, President of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA),
gave the following testimony before the United States Senate ... , those who can least afford to lose their life savings. Just remember, a "free lunch" could cost you a bundle." The Hayes Law Firm encourages investors to report investment advisor fraud and to seek damages. (PRESS RELEASE: SEC WARING--BEWARE OF "FREE LUNCH" INVESTMENT SEMINARS, The Hayes Law Firm, P.C ...
14 Jul, 2008 5:52 pm
... of the discussion, not the implications of the solution). Some felt, in reading the post "2008 State of the Small Presses," that I was, variously: attempting to indict
specific publishers, publishers generally, or the notion of publishing conceptually; attempting to discourage young ... work will find an Audience eventually, and 2) those who say that
we must shrink the size of the American publishing industry by half or more--a surprisingly popular view--cannot be said to believe in, or
embrace, ...
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