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Raymond Pryke donates $125,000 to FAC legal initiatives

FAC September 1, 2011

The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce that it has received major gifts from veteran newspaper owner and publisher Raymond Pryke. The contributions totaling $125,000 will fund FAC’s litigation project, Hotline service and other legal initiatives. “Raymond Pryke’s generosity is a huge boost to free speech and the public’s right to know,” said Peter Scheer, FAC’s executive director. “Raymond is uniquely committed to defending these rights, and we are extremely grateful to him.” Pryke

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Guradian denies it caused leak of U.S. diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks website

donal brown September 1, 2011

The Guardian said it had no role in the release of thousands of unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables. WikiLeaks claimed that the newspaper had caused the security breach. A Guardian News & Media spokeswoman said their story about WikiLeaks in February contained a password but nothing about the location of the files and that WikiLeaks had told them the password was only temporary and would expire in a matter of hours. -db From  the Press Gazette,

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New book: Secret security bureaucracy burgeons after 9/11

donal brown September 1, 2011

Since 9/11, “Top Secret America” has grown to gargantuan proportions according to a new book by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, writes Steven Aftergood in a review of the book for Secrecy News. Office buildings devoted to secret intelligence have grown to the equivalence of almost three Pentagons with more than 250,000 contractors working on secret projects. The authors are skeptical about the effectiveness of the devoting so many resources on secret enterprises without

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University of Kentucky shuts out sports writer

donal brown September 1, 2011

Unhappy with the reporting of a sports writer for the University of Kentucky student newspaper, the media relations department banned the newspaper from media interviews with the team. The writer had contacted two  possible students walk-ons to the basketball team breaking the unwritten policy requiring permission from the media department before interviewing student athletes. -db From the Lexington Herald-Leader, August 31, 2011, by Scott Sloan. Full story

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Open meetings: City council barred from taking private tour of water facility

donal brown September 1, 2011

California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris demonstrated the long reach of the state’s open meeting law, the Brown Act,  in her opinion that for majority of a Southern California city council to take an invitation-only tour of a Northern California water district facility would be a violation of the law. Harris also said that even if properly noticed and inclusive, holding a meeting at such a distance from the city would limit public access and further

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