Another month has passed and that means it’s time to travel around the world in search of news about press freedom. First stop: Paris. That’s where we find newspaper Le Monde, arguably the New York Times of France, filing suit against French president Nicolas Sarkozy for the unlawful use of government intelligence services to identify [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Around the World: Press Freedom in the News
Posted in Censorship, Free Speech, Human Rights, Media News, News Entertainment, Press Freedom on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
60 Minutes Set To Debut Online Program
Posted in Media News, News Entertainment, Press Freedom on September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
60 Minutes returns for its 43rd season Sunday night on CBS and will launch a new online platform called 60 Minutes Overtime the same day. “Overtime” will produce original content adapted from the weekly broadcast series. Viewers will be taken behind the scenes and shown how stories are produced. According to a press release, viewers [...]
Silence Is Golden, Ctd
Posted in Bias, Censorship, Conservatives, Media News, Politics, Religious Extremism, Republicans, Tea Party on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, I posted here about an emerging trend among conservative Tea Party candidates and their relationship with the media – which is to say they have none. It began with Sarah Palin, gained steam this year with Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle and Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, and [...]
Self-Proclaimed Constitutionalists Who Don’t Understand The Constitution
Posted in Bigotry, Conservatives, Constitution, Islamism, Media News, Politics, Religious Extremism, Republicans, Tea Party, War and Terror on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, at the dubiously named Values Voter Summit, former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich told an enraptured conservative crowd that America needed a new federal law banning Islamic sharia law from infiltrating the country’s judicial system. Of course, Gingrich seems oblivious to the fact that America already has such a law on [...]
Guns, Drugs and Newspapers
Posted in Press Freedom on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Caught in a deadly fight for the truth, a newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico has made a very tragic plea to the drug cartels fueling untold violence and death just across the El Paso border: Tell us what to do. “What do you want from us?” a front-page editorial addressed to the gangs read in [...]
