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First Amendment Rights of Individuals Are Equal to those of Traditional Media

August 27th, 2011

By Dan Miller In Glik v. City of Boston, et al, a Mr. Glik had used his cellular phone to video and audio tape a police encounter with a man on the Boston Common. He was arrested for doing so but charges were thereafter dropped. He then filed suit in Federal District Court alleging violation [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: arrest, Boston, filming, First Amendment, Glik, police, press, video
Categories: Law, Media, News | Comments (0) | Home

Why I Left California

November 8th, 2010

By Nancy Morgan After living in California for 33 years, I finally decided to leave. I sold my business and my home and relocated to South Carolina. I moved to California when I was 17. Like most of my fellow residents, I was busy living my life. I gave very little thought to politics, assuming [...]

Articles written by Nancy Morgan
Tags: California, conservative, education, liberal bias, press, South Carolina, taxes
Categories: Life, Media, Politics | Comments (10) | Home

What a Day!

August 21st, 2009

August 20, 2009 – some highlights of a very newsy day! Cash 4 clunkers ran out of gas! Reverend Obama is preaching to the public: larger government is now the “moral” option. Ted Kennedy is, sadly, dying of brain cancer and as a last wish he wants to undo the law in Massachusetts so that the [...]

Articles written by Harvey Grund
Tags: economy, health care, Libya, Lockerbie, press
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

Health Care Debate Debacle

August 15th, 2009

As I watch the continuing health care reform debate, I have to wonder if the nation has lost its collective mind. Opponents behave in public in ways they would never tolerate from their teenaged children.  They’re often poorly informed but inflamed by talk radio extremists and well-orchestrated opposition campaigns that freely mix disinformation with valid [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Democrats, health care, press, Republicans
Categories: Media, News, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

Infatuated with Obama

June 1st, 2009

As I’ve said before, I think President Obama is a smart guy who can evolve into a good president, once he gains some experience in the job.  I want him to succeed, although I don’t want to see some of his policies successfully implemented.  That isn’t contradictory.  Good presidents often don’t get everything they want, [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Obama, press
Categories: Media, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

Saving The New York Times

April 2nd, 2009

Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the financially troubled New York Times, said in a speech at Stanford University today, Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause. Maybe they should get a bailout from the government.  Then we could own The New York Times, and the White House and Democrats in Congress [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: arrogance, press
Categories: Humor, Media | Comments (3) | Home

The Fairness Doctrine

February 5th, 2009

Seems that the ill-named Fairness Doctrine may be rearing its ugly head again.  It’s nothing more than a device to stifle free speech, originated in the 1920s when radio was the only broadcast medium and frequencies were scarce.  Since then, politicians, mostly liberals, have sporadically used it as a political tool to shut down opposing points of view.  [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: press, speech
Categories: History, Media, Politics | Comments (6) | Home

The Newseum

January 31st, 2009

A friend just tipped me to The Newseum, a museum in Washington, D.C. that’s devoted to, well, the news.  As stated on the website, The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. … The Newseum features seven [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: press
Categories: Media, News | Comments (5) | Home

Coleman vs. Franken

January 6th, 2009

These words can be found in Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution: Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members…. Either the House of Representatives or the Senate can refuse to seat anyone sent to join it by any congressional district or state.  This power is [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, liberal, press
Categories: Media, News, Politics | Comments (4) | Home

The Future of Journalism

December 29th, 2008

Are newspapers about to go the way of the Pony Express, replaced by the faster, wider, longer reach of the Internet? Is blogging the future of journalism? I’ve been thinking about this a lot since retiring from a newspaper career and exploring the Internet in search of new possibilities for publishing my writing. Modern American [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: press
Categories: Media, News | Comments (2) | Home

Best Notable Quotables

December 28th, 2008

The conservative Media Research Center has just released “The Best Notable Quotables of 2008: The 21st Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting.”  Given the political orientation of the Media Research Center, you can rightly expect that their report will highlight liberal bias in the media.  But then, where else would you find a report like [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: conservative, Humor, liberal, press
Categories: Humor, Media, News, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

Heroic Terrorist

December 20th, 2008

Ami Pedazhur, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, wrote an interesting article on terrorism and its methods over the years in The New York Times on December 20.  He relates that in 1979, Samir Kuntar led a group of terrorists to the beach of Nahariya and shot a police officer and a civilian, [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: islamist, Israel, press, terrorism
Categories: Media, News, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

The Great Shoe Crisis

December 16th, 2008

Not since Imelda Marcos’ closet was thrown open have shoes been such a hot item in the news.  Some young brain-dead Iraqi journalist (actually, a stringer) throws his shoes at President Bush and calls him a dog–two prime insults in the Arab world.  Fine.  It’s offensive, as it was intended to be, and all Americans ought [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Bush, Iraq, press, terrorism
Categories: Life, Media, News, Politics | Comments (1) | Home

Michael J. Totten

December 15th, 2008

Michael J. Totten is an independent journalist from Portland, Oregon.  He specializes on the Middle East, and his work has been published in numerous prestigious newspapers and magazines.  He also publishes articles on his blog.  He published an article today, On the Hunt in Baghdad, reporting on an Army unit he accompanied on an operation.  Their mission was [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: army, Military, press
Categories: Military | Comments (0) | Home

Historic Photographs

December 12th, 2008

If you enjoy historic photographs going back to before the Civil War, here’s the place to go:  the LIFE photo archive hosted by Google.  This is a joint effort by LIFE Magazine and Google, drawing from LIFE’s photo archive to make millions of photographs available to the public.  Most haven’t been published before, and they’re [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: press
Categories: Arts, History, Life, Media | Comments (0) | Home

Around the Blogosphere

December 10th, 2008

Kevin at Preemptive Karma is running a series of excerpts from Barack Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope.  Kevin is a smart guy, and he’ll find all the good stuff.  I recommend reading his series. A few days ago, Carla at BlueOregon wrote an interesting post titled, “Stuff that gets my grouch on.”  Take a look at [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: islamist, Israel, Law, Obama, press, terrorism
Categories: Life, News | Comments (0) | Home

Federal Gas Tax Increase

December 8th, 2008

It’s time for an increase in the federal tax on gasoline retail sales.  It should be increased from the present 18.4 percent to around 50 percent.  Just writing that sets my teeth on edge, but, nevertheless, it’s time. I don’t usually favor tax increases.  I believe government should tax less and do less, in general.  “That [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: press, tax
Categories: Life, Politics | Comments (8) | Home

Poopacino, Anyone?

December 8th, 2008

Dave Barry once wrote about the craze for weird kinds of coffee. Here’s the good part: This specialty-coffee craze has gone too far. I say this in light of a letter I got recently from alert reader Bo Bishop. He sent me an invitation he received from a local company to a ”private tasting of [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Humor, press
Categories: Humor | Comments (2) | Home

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