Peter Scheer

If you were among the first people to listen to the Donald Trump grope tape, you did so on the website of the Washington Post. The Post had it first, which is interesting when you consider the tape was stored in NBC archives and was discovered by NBC personnel. And yet the Post beat NBC on the Trump tape story?   Maybe, maybe not. Here’s an alternative theory (and, I stress, it’s just a theory):  NBC

BY SUSAN SEAGER–Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck’s release of security camera footage showing 18-year-old Carnell Snell Jr. moments before he was shot to death by LAPD officers in South Los Angeles on Saturday is a first step away from the department’s secrecy policy for tapes of fatal shootings. But Beck hasn’t moved far enough. The LAPD and the Los Angeles Police Commission should jettison the strict rules they set up in 2015 that routinely

In an interview with Pacific Standard, I discussed the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker—or more precisely, the role of billionaire Peter Thiel, who financed the litigation even though he was not a party in the case and had no legal standing to be one. From the transcript: . . . . .  “I’m afraid that the legacy of the Gawker suit will be that journalists everywhere are not quite sure what went wrong in that

Because of legal restrictions on nonprofit, “charitable” organizations, I am not allowed to say that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to First Amendment freedoms. I believe it to be true.  But as executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, I am supposed to keep such thoughts to myself. The freedom to engage in public debate during the run-up to an election—criticizing one candidate, supporting an opponent—is taken for granted in America and rightly considered