Tag: Politics
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Jean Rohe: Why I Spoke Up | The Huffington Post
“When I was selected as a student speaker for the New School commencement about two months ago I had no idea that I’d end up on CNN and in Maureen Dowd’s column in the New York Times, among other places, when it was all over.” Jean Rohe: Why I Spoke Up | The Huffington Post
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Scary stuff for journalists: the Feds are tracking your calls, too
ABC News blog The Blotter is reporting that a “senior federal law enforcement official” told them the federal government is running the whole caller-ID data mining trip on journalists in an effort to track down their confidential sources. Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with…
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The print edition – y’know – for kids
Fellow SJSU grad student Patrick Dwire has a great cover story in this week’s Santa Cruz Good Times, one of our intrepid alternative weeklies here in the Cruz. Patrick takes a look at what newspapers all over the country are doing to try and hook the 18-24 set. (Note to self: I’m not the target…
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Sunshine Week
It’s Sunshine Week: Find something to FOIA, check the courthouse for records from that lawsuit story you’re working on, dig around in the law a little bit, root for open government! Sunshine Week
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The editors are blogging – and they have opinions. Should they?
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is running a pair of blogs. (Full disclosure: I live in Santa Cruz, and rarely purchase a print edition of any of the three papers I can easily find at the corner store.) One of the blogs is an “Editors’ Notebook” written by Editor Tom Honig and Managing Editor Don Miller.…
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Harvard University IOP: Events and Programs: Forum Archive
Lots and lots of great political video, easy to navigate archives. I already watched a short clip from a 1992 Bill Clinton campaign trail speech and got all sorts of misty-eyed. Harvard University IOP: Events and Programs: Forum Archive
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Reporters Without Borders has ideas about Chinese Democracy
Reporters Without Borders has published a set of proposals for corporate responsibility when it comes to online freedom of speech. These six recommendations would forbid US email hosts from planting their servers within the borders of nations with oppressive laws aimed at quashing dissent i.e. Yahoo mandate a “protected” list of words that search engines…
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FT.com / World / Americas – Chávez and allies enjoy clean sweep
Financial Times take on the one-sided parliamentary election in Venezuela. FT.com / World / Americas – Chávez and allies enjoy clean sweep