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Media Access Project: FCC defense of Martin-era newspaper-broadcast ownership liberalization could be harmful for diversity

FAC July 21, 2010

Press Release/ Media Access Project Commentary July 21, 2010 By Media Access Project WASHINGTON — Today, the Federal Communications Commission filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit addressing broadcast media ownership rules. In the brief, the Commission’s majority, with Commissioner Michael J. Copps dissenting, supported former-Chairman Kevin Martin’s 2007 decision to relax the Newspaper Broadcast Cross-Ownership (NBCO) rule in the nation’s top 20 media markets, while upholding other television

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UF First Amendment project files brief with U.S. Supreme Court in funeral protest case

FAC July 21, 2010

Press Release/ UF July 21, 2010 By University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project joined three other free speech groups to file a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court last week. They filed it as part of Snyder v. Phelps, a free speech case centering on military funeral protests by members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. “The Snyder case pits the First Amendment

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Homeland Security sent freedom of information requests through political filter

FAC July 21, 2010

For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by The Associated Press. AP July 21, 2010 By Ted Bridis WASHINGTON (AP) — The department abandoned the practice after AP investigated. Inspectors from the department’s Office of Inspector General quietly conducted

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Shutdown of blogging site sparks dispute

FAC July 21, 2010

A free blogging site, Blogetery.com, went dark less than two weeks ago, and its disappearance is stirring controversy about the obligations of Internet services and threats to free speech on the Web. New York Times July 21, 2010 By Steve Lohr Visitors to Blogetery, which says it housed 73,000 blogs, now find a page that is blank except for a brief message saying “our server was terminated without any notification or explanation.” It directs browsers

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Judge rejects ACLU’s request for information on detainees

FAC July 20, 2010

A federal judge in New York has decided that he lacks the authority to order the government to disclose information regarding the treatment of Sept. 11 detainees – even if the government’s actions were unlawful. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press July 20, 2010 By Brian Westley “Courts are not invested with the competence to second-guess the CIA Director regarding the appropriateness of any particular intelligence source or method,” wrote U.S. District Court

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