from the Register-Guard:
The order issued Monday afternoon came after The Register-Guard and the Eugene Weekly separately asked the District Attorney’s Office to overturn a city decision that asserted state laws pertaining to personnel records required the police reports to remain secret until the city completes a misconduct investigation into officer Judd Warden’s actions. [...]
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Eugene City Police Ordered to Release Taser Police Report
Posted in constitution, criminal law, ethics, free speech, media, oregon, politics, prejudice, private press, public domain, torture on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When Xenu Sees This, He’s Going To Be Pissed
Posted in copyright, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, hypocrisy, internet, media, politics, private press, property, technology, tv, tagged cults, fishman affidavit, OTIII, religion, scientology, Xenu on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The kids at Digg have noticed that someone posted a huge collection of Scientology documents on the web. And from digg, someone posted a torrent of the file to PirateBay. As I suggested last week, this is the obvious and natural consequence of drawing attention to that silly Tom Cruise video- people will yank the [...]
Exactly Too Late For Impeachment
Posted in constitution, dissent, ethics, free speech, impeachment, media, politics, private press, tagged McGovern, New York Times on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And you know it’s too late now, because the NYT is running opinion pieces openly calling for it. Since the NYT has made it a policy to withhold the unvarnished truth until it can no longer make any meaningful difference, (see 2000 election -> George Bush DWI -> published in the week before the election, [...]
(Here’s Hoping That) The Emotional Center Cannot Hold
Posted in advertising, dissent, economics, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, internet, media, private press, public domain, technology, tv, tagged GE, NBC, net neutrality, tv news is crap, Wired on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a gripping account of what goes wrong when the reporting of public news is made into a private corporate profit center. It’s long, and it’s worth the read, because it goes a long way towards explaining what is wrong with the institution of TV news in this country:
This was one in a series [...]
The Story Behind The Story
Posted in dissent, education, free speech, hypocrisy, media, politics, private press, tax on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Read this. If Sirota is right, and if Huck and Edwards could consolidate support around a position of economic populism and health care reform, candidate Huckawards would have something like 50% of the electorate… at a time when there are still ten other candidates in the race.
Glenn Greenwald Tells TIME To Retract Lies
Posted in dissent, economics, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, internet, media, politics, private press on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Somehow I missed this from last week. Maybe it was all that turkey, or maybe I just didn’t read the details. But I guess Halperin isn’t the only lazy hack on the TIME payroll. Glenn wrote:
As my post earlier today here demonstrates, that is hardly unusual behavior for Time. But that doesn’t make it [...]
Simple Answers To Naive Questions
Posted in advertising, dissent, economics, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, media, politics, private press, tv, tagged Cheney, FCC, Fox News on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In a story about proposed changes to FCC media ownership guidelines, the Raw Story asks:
Who do these guys work for, anyway?
In this case, that’s a pretty easy question. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is married to Cheney lackey and current Deputy Assistant to the President Catherine Martin. So any idiot should be able to see that [...]
