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US media shouldn’t rush to hang Murdoch’s News Corp for the sins of its London tabloids. Let’s wait to see the evidence.

[…] into public demands for a legislative response targeting American media companies. But, while checkbook journalism is deplorable, and though some of its American practitioners might even welcome government intervention to curb it, any legislative solution would be fraught with risks to free speech. The list of News Corp staffers who have resigned, including Les […]
- Press Freedom
July 18, 2011
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Unsealed: Newly released warrant reveals flimsy basis for L.A. sheriff targeting press, protesters

[…] make disclosures to the judge to ensure press rights were protected. In addition to California’s strong shield law protections, the U.S. Privacy Protection Act limits when the government can pilfer through protected newsgathering materials. (Unzueta brought a civil rights lawsuit over the ordeal and received a $90,000 settlement.) The investigator’s statement of probable cause […]
- Press Freedom
June 7, 2023
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Trumping Trump: California’s Attack on the First Amendment

[…] records, as is their right, under the California Public Records Act. A hesitant press is a press that can’t fulfill its constitutionally protected mission to hold the government to account. If California’s leaders mean it when they say they are protecting their state against constitutional violations, they should look in the mirror first. David […]
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- Press Freedom
May 21, 2019
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The public does not get to see what’s in the new BART contract until it’s a done deal. Why is that?

October 29, 2013
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Supremes pass on NYT reporter Risen’s appeal of ruling requiring him to ID sources. This is a good thing.

[…] Justice Department has tightened its internal policies to curb future abuses, the Department took a hard line in its Supreme Court brief in the Risen case. The government, opposing Risen’s request for review, argued against the Court’s recognition of protection for journalists’ sources (even while the Justice Department has supported the Shield Law bill). […]
- Free Expression
June 17, 2014
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Statement by FAC’s David Snyder on Newly Unsealed Carmody Search Warrant Materials
- Press Freedom
August 6, 2019
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Should news outlets, social media & internet services curb public access to ISIS?

[…] is fair to say, unreceptive to the rational back-and-forth of public debate on the merits of Islamist extremism. I do not mean to suggest that the federal government should take steps to unplug ISIS videos on the internet, even if it could do so (which is doubtful). That would blow too big a hole […]
- Free Expression
February 24, 2015
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[…] October 11, 2006, I received an e-mail message from an organization calling itself the California First Amendment Coalition. The message header was "Flash: First Amendment and Open Government News," surely something I'd be interested in reading. The body of the message was a re-print of the current lead article, Vol. 16, no. 16, on […]

June 2, 2009
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Putin plays the media like a violin

[…] current election cycle is the disconcerting spectacle of a foreign adversary successfully manipulating the American news media. I’m referring, of course, to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. After government cybersleuths, at his direction, hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computer network and the email inbox of Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Putin made the savvy decision to […]

October 19, 2016
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Public schools may take down a student banner stating “Bong Hits 4 Jesus,” the US Supreme Court rules. But not in California.

[…] and held that student speech at public schools can be censored if it "can reasonably be regarded as encouraging illegal drug use." The Court held that the government has an "important--indeed, perhaps compelling interest" in deterring the use of dangerous drugs by students and that the First Amendment "does not require schools to tolerate […]
- Free Expression
June 3, 2009