May 11th, 2008 | by Editor | published in 1st Amendment
A former USA Today reporter facing fines for failing to reveal her sources for stories about the 2001 anthrax attacks said Saturday that news organizations need to go on the offensive in the fight to protect the First Amendment.
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May 4th, 2008 | by Editor | published in 1st Amendment
ACLU
Committee to Protect Journalists
Electronic Frontier Foundation
First Amendment Center (Freedom Forum)
First Amendment Foundation
First Amendment Handbook (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
First Amendment Project
May 4th, 2008 | by Editor | published in 1st Amendment
Gov. David Paterson signed the Libel Terrorism Protection Act on Thursday, helping New York set the pace in protecting American journalists from foreign libel verdicts.The bill was first proposed in response to a ruling from New York’s highest court that the state could not exercise jurisdiction over Khalid Salim a Bin Mahfouz, a Saudi Arabian […]
Stop the presses: there are a lot of crazy and/or angry people out there. One of their current obsessions is their belief, based on absolutely zero evidence, that Obama was not born in this country. The abundance and persistence of conspiracy theories - especially during times of change and challenge - is nothing new, of […]
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.— Edward R. Murrow
