Archive for ‘Current Events’

Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who recently spent 85 days in jail for refusing to divulge a source, called for a federal shield law today at the annual convention of the Society of Professional Journalists in Las Vegas. More »

The New York Times has come out with its story on the Judith Miller situation. To me it leaves a lot of questions unanswered and doesn’t offer the best example of how to work with anonymous sources.. More »

The Rambling Journalist, former Optimist editor Paul Anthony, has a good post on a move by the international community to wrest control of the ‘Net from the United States. More »

For purposes of the shield law he’s promoting, Sen. Dick Durbin says “No.”
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Find out why the Vogue editor was hit by a pie in Paris. It’s a good situation involving advertising law.

From the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press More »

Al Gore is concerned that the marketplace of ideas is not working. More »

The first Monday in October is the first day of the Supreme Court term. Justices Stephen Breyer, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony M. Kennedy joined Chief Justice Roberts, at today’s Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington. The mass is celebrated annually on the Sunday before the Supreme Court begins its term, and President Bush attended for the first time. More »

The New York Times reporter spent 12 weeks in jail for refusing to testify in the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity. More »