Out of their experience in reporting on the homeless, Street Sense Media has published a guide for covering the homeless crisis. The guide helps reporters frame questions, address the homeless with sensitivity and tact and and deal with dicey questions of consent and anonymity. (Poynter, October 12, 2022, by Kristen Hare)
Former President Donald Trump announced plans to file several lawsuits against news outlets for defamation. Trump has a long history of litigation. (Next TV, October 10., 2022, by John Eggerton) Law professor RonNell Andersen Jones in NBC News, October 8, 2022, writes that politicians are opting for defamation suits against the news media to attract attention and promote their agendas. Matt Ford in The New Republic, October 6, 2022, reports that in suing CNN, Trump
The Supreme Court is about to consider a case on Section 230 of a federal law that exempts online platforms from liability for user content. Gonzalez v. Google concerns an American law student killed in a 2015 ISIS attack in Paris. The student’s family sued Google for violating the Anti-Terrorism Act for its algorithm recommending ISIS videos to other users. The suit claims in promoting terrorism, the algorithm was outside the scope of Section 230.
Journalism professor Edward Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 2022, argues that the recent court decision against Project Veritas may adversely affect investigative journalism. Rather than rule that Veritas was “a band of Ideologues” gathering “information dishonestly to use in dishonest ways,” the court focused on the fraud of misrepresenting credentials and engaging in illegal wiretapping. Unfortunately, they zeroed in on practices that investigative journalists have used to produce the nation’s finest investigative reports. For
Moira Donegan in The Guardian, October 3, 2022, writes that since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, in red states “…women’s options, speech and academic freedoms are now being dramatically constrained by the misogynist laws….” She cites the instance of the University of Idaho where the administration sent a letter to professors that they could no longer promote or counsel in favor of abortion or tell students to get an abortion. Professors at Idaho state