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November 11, 2009
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Now Hiring: Development Director
[…] accelerate FAC’s successful fundraising work, which has fueled an expansion of our budget, our staff and, most importantly, our impact in advancing press freedoms, free expression and government transparency. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, FAC believes that the broadest range of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy – that the […]August 25, 2022
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Now Hiring: Communications Director or Manager
[…] closed The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) seeks an experienced communications professional to raise awareness about the organization’s mission to advance and protect press freedoms, free expression and government transparency. The communications director/manager will set communications strategy and priorities, and execute daily tasks to elevate FAC programs and inform news coverage of open-government and First […]August 25, 2022
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Newspapers are not dead yet.
[…] 10 percent of their print edition revenue; and this after years of investment online. It's not that newspapers can't sell advertising on the Internet; it's that ads must be sold on a scale that is vastly higher--think Yahoo or YouTube--than the levels newspapers can ever hope to achieve. The challenge to newspapers today is […]June 2, 2009
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Media heroism turned on its head: The real Manning scandal
[…] disdain and showed the bottomless suffering the war inflicted on the innocents it was supposed to save. With the Pentagon Papers, newspapers defied secrecy rules to expose government lies. With Watergate, reporters forced out a corrupt president. True, that retelling is a bit of myth-spinning; the media never were quite that gutsy. But myths […]March 20, 2013
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Major newspapers back CFAC/MAPlight lawsuit to expand public access to Legislative actions
[…] to change it. On Friday, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, suggested that a resolution may be coming soon. "When there is no additional burden on government to turn over the information in a user-friendly format, we ought to be stretching and going out of our way to do that," Steinberg said by […]June 2, 2009
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Google’s purchase of Motorola shows dangers of out-of-control patent litigation
[…] growth and job growth is huge. Politicians and economists, particularly of the Republican variety, have been quick to blame the US economy's slow pace of recovery on government uncertainty--uncertainty about the impact on businesses of new federal initiatives (particularly, the Obama administration's healthcare program), tax policy, and environmental regulations. They should be expressing similar […]August 16, 2011
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Google’s Antitrust Wrist Slap Is Right Result for Wrong Reason. Right Reason: Google Search Results are Protected Speech
[…] "search bias" allegations, reached the right destination, but it took the wrong route to get there. The search results produced by Google's search engine are exempt from government control, whether under antitrust or other laws, because they are protected, as free speech, by the proverbial "higher law" of the First Amendment. First Amendment considerations […]January 7, 2013
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Free the Hewlett-Packard 5!
[…] disaffected employees or board members from leaking. The media’s relative freedom to publish leaks, whether from corporations or the Defense Department, is a function of corporations’ and government’s relative freedom to identify and punish leakers in their own ranks. If they were constrained in their ability to deter leaks internally, their claim to stop […]June 2, 2009
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For Google, Facebook et al, the best defense against NSA surveillance is not legal reform, but technology that forces the agency to come through the “front door”
[…] NSA and wants to see its activities curbed. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, nerds and Luddites, all share a high level of discomfort about the federal government gaining access to their personal information stored on the servers of Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others. But here's the question: If we object to NSA's use […]January 7, 2014
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