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Commentary: Journalism becoming reactive rather than proactive

donal brown January 18, 2011

Inside Higher Ed Commentary January 18, 2011 By Michael Bugeja The director of Iowa State’s journalism school, Michael Bugeja, says that with the cutbacks in journalists generating content on location, journalism has been dominated by the likes of satirist Jon Stewart and activist Julian Assange. Bugeja says, “By elevating access over truth, ours has become a world that reacts via commentary rather than prevents in advance of calamity.” -db

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Father of deceased UC Berkeley football player sues Daily Cal

donal brown January 18, 2011

The Daily Californian January 14, 2011 By True Shields The father of a former Cal football player is asking the Daily Californian to remove one article and two blog posts from its 2006 and 2007 archives written about his son’s fight at a San Francisco nightclub. The father filed a suit in a Fresno County small claims court saying the articles inflicted emotional distress. The son died in 2010. -db

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Totalitarian regimes finding Internet useful

donal brown January 18, 2011

Wired Commentary January 14,2011 By Evgeny Morozov The conventional wisdom is that the Internet is a tool for democracy and freedom, but Wired writer Evgeny Morozov points out that the Internet can be used just as well to foster repression. -db

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New leaks from Swiss bank that FAC helped Wikileaks fight in 2008

FAC January 17, 2011

A Swiss bank whistleblower has given Wikileaks’ Julian Assange  information on the secret accounts of 2000 prominent individuals just two days before he’s set to go to trial in Switzerland for breaking bank secrecy laws, the BBC reported Monday: Wikileaks given data on Swiss bank accounts Although it was not confirmed what activities might be covered by the data Mr Elmer has passed on, the Wikileaks head noted that previous data from Julius Baer provided

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