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ACLU appeals to Guantanamo commission to allow defendants to testify about torture

donal brown May 3, 2012

The American Civil Liberties Union has asked the Guantanamo Bay military commission to allow defendants to give details of their detention and treatment at the hands of the CIA and the military. The government claims that any testimony and the CIA’s interrogation would be classified and not for public dissemination. Defendants are scheduled to appear May 5 to hear charges. -db From a press release by the American Civil Liberties Union, May 3, 2012. Full

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Opinion: Chicago Tribune trusts local news coverage to ‘robots and content farms’

donal brown April 26, 2012

The Chicago Tribune fired 20 of its journalists and  employed a local company called Journatic to provide its local news, Mathew Ingram of GigaOM is asking if that outfit is just another “content farm” using robotic methods of complying the news. Some warn that using robots to provide news results in meaningless data while  others defend the methods saying that dull, repetitive tasks are done by robots to free up humans to add real value

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Opinion: Son of late Nevada governor harassing reporter in court

donal brown April 26, 2012

Jeff Guinn, the son of the late Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn, is so unhappy with the reporting of a lawsuit brought against him by investors that he is suing the reporter claiming she was bribed with personal favors to pursue the story. The problem is that even after losing in lower court, Guinn has appealed to the state Supreme Court, in effect, creating a disincentive for reporters to aggressively report the news in the public’s

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New Labor Department procedures jeopardize timely reporting on jobs data

donal brown April 19, 2012

In what they say is a need for greater security, the U.S. Department of Labor has ordered the media to remove their computer software and other equipment at the department and to rely on government equipment, software and Internet connections to retrieve the news. The media is concerned that reporters will not gain access to data at the same time, a condition provided under the old procedures. -db From Bloomberg News, April 18, 2012, by

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Opinion: First Amendment lawyer argues for open trials at Guantanamo Bay

donal brown April 19, 2012

The country would be well served if the military judge at Guantanamo Bay would open the tribunals trying terrorism suspects, writes First Amendment lawyer David A. Schulz. Schulz argues that open trials would provide public acceptance of verdicts, accountability for those trying the cases and and democratic oversight. -db From a commentary for The New York Times, April 18, 2012, by David A. Schulz. Full story  

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