Reporters Without Borders came out with their 2008 freedom of the press rankings and the U.S. is down considerably from last year. The 50 states received 36th place out of 173 countries of the world, but including the U.S.’s territories it was a low 119th.
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Little covered in mainstream media is the huge attention the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are getting on the streets in the form of art. An aggregate of the best anti-Iraq war art, of which there is much. Check out the running numbers of American casualties. Here’s to looking at the art of the people instead [...]
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A grand jury in Illinois wants the Alton Telegraph to turn over the names, addresses and Internet Protocol addresses of readers who commented on the newspaper’s website under five different profile names. The newspaper is attempting to protect those readers by using the shield law which protects “sources” of news organizations. The state claims the [...]
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ELECTION 2008 – Gov. Palin
Even before the McCain administration chose Gov. Sarah Palin, Andree McLeod, a Alaskan political watchdog had filed a request for access to Gov. Sarah Palin’s personal emails (gov.palin@yahoo.com) she suspected were being used for political work but not accessible by public access. Now McLeod seeks to make sure Palin cannot [...]
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Hopefully the brand-new N.E. First Amendment Center — which lives in the journalism department at Northeastern and online — will help shed some light on under-reported events and developments on the freedom of speech and right-to-know front. (Full disclosure:
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