Schools suppress speech rights and bus driver fired

Germantown (Wisconsin) High School teacher Eric Glass is facing sexual assault charges for sexual relations with a 17 year old student at his high school. While this action is wrong, because society has to draw the line somewhere when it comes to an age of consent, Mr....

Attorney General Eric Holder Can't Get A Word In Edgewise

You would think that when the Attorney General of the United States holds a press conference, informing  the Nation that as soon as the Republicans gained a majority in Congress, they foiled the President's plan to prosecute terrorist in civil courts, by defunding it,...

BC courthouses under scrutiny for public document access

Three reporters from the Times Colonist are putting their journalism skills to the test in their mission to exploit the inconsistencies that exist in British Columbia's open court system and in the accessing of public court documents.  "... The idea was quite simple,...

Suicide Bomber Strikes Karachi: 40 dead, 95 injured

The Ashura - tenth day of Moharram procession was moving peacefully, as thousands of men and women - mourners remembering the sacrifices of Prophet Mohammad's family in Kerbala - commemorate the day each year in...

Washington Post Sells Access to Obama Admin, Reporters: $25,000+

The Washington Post is selling lobbyists and others "access" to purported key Obama officials and even the paper's own reporters and editors, Politico reported Thursday, July 2.A flier was circulated advertising "Washington Post Salons", guaranteeing off-record,...

US Journalists Laura Ling & Euna Lee get 12 Years Hard Labor

A twelve year sentence of hard labor was handed down to US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea on Monday.  " North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in...

Should citizen-journalists be paid?

Should citizen-journalists be paid?  As sites like NowPublic and other spread their sea legs into the new world of web 2.0, questions begin to arise on paying writers and photographers for content or maintain...

Petronas Urged by Ethopian Rebels to Avoid Ogaden

Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels warned Malaysia's Petronas [PETR.UL] on Tuesday they would not tolerate oil exploration in Ethopia's Somali region, saying it would link the company to war crimes by the Ethiopian...

The Danger of Propaganda by not allowing Independent Reporters.

 By, Uwe Paschen. Now, I am not the first nor will I be the last to write about Journalist and Reporters getting the news wrong, for lack of taking the time to check the authenticity and correctness of the...

Reporters Without Borders: 62 journalists killed in 2008

By Miriam Mannak Although the number of fatalities among reporters, photographers, and other people working in the field of journalism in 2008 has dropped to 62 from 106 in 2007, in many countries a job...

The New York Times’ Discusses NASCAR Coverage

" CIA Stock Photo, Inc. Question: The Times has done an excellent job responding to the popularity of Nascar. What do you see for the future of the...

Mumbai: Citizen Journalists Provide Glimpses Into Attacks

The following New York Times article comments on the merits of Citizen Journalism during the horrid moments of the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks. It only quotes the information as provided by Twitter....

Is it time for the Catalan media to go back to school?

"I’ve been reading with interest what’s been happening this week in Cataluña regarding the…ahem language spoken by the Catalan media. The Periódico de Cataluña gave us an insight this week into the right and wrong way of pronouncing certain Catalan expressions which...

A good take on being a reporter

Reporting is where journalism begins. Without reporting -- gathering facts, information, and views and putting all those together -- journalism doesn't exist. So we owe a deep debt to those who spend their lives doing the tough job of reporting. Deborah Howell, ombudsman for...

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