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• NYT > World: Kyrgyz President Blamed in Homicide

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Gennadi Pavlyuk, a politically active former editor, was bound and thrown from a window while on a visit to a neighboring Central Asian country.
  17 hours ago

• NYT > World: Canadian Rulings Revise Law on Libel

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Two high court decisions released Tuesday increase protections for journalists, bloggers and others in Canada, a country whose libel laws are unusually severe.
  18 hours ago

• Opposition Blames Kyrgyz President in Killing of a Journalist

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 168
  Gennadi Pavlyuk, a politically active former editor, was bound and thrown from a window while on a visit to a neighboring Central Asian country.
  19 hours ago

• Kyrgyz President Blamed in Homicide

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Gennadi Pavlyuk, a politically active former editor, was bound and thrown from a window while on a visit to a neighboring Central Asian country.
  19 hours ago

• NYT > World: Canadian Libel Rulings Expand Reporting Freedoms

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Two high court decisions released Tuesday increase protections for journalists, bloggers and others in Canada, a country whose libel laws are unusually severe.
  1 day ago

• Canadian Libel Rulings Expand Reporting Freedoms

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Two high court decisions released Tuesday increase protections for journalists, bloggers and others in Canada, a country whose libel laws are unusually severe.
  1 day ago

• Obama Interviewer in China Is Said to Be Demoted

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  The top editor of one of China’s most influential newspapers had annoyed Communist Party propaganda officials with an interview of President Obama he carried out a few weeks ago.
  6 days ago

• “The Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act” Passes in House

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 574
  My friend Pablo Chavez, Managing Policy Counsel of Google, brings to my attention the fact that the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act (H.R. 3714) was pending before the House today, and I’m happy to note that it passed late this afternoon. The bill, which is co-sponsored by Reps. Schiff and Pence in the ...
  6 days ago

• There’s No Free Press in Egypt

  
  Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog — Authority: 134
  That’s some bad timing U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey had last week.  Speaking at a public conference in Egypt, Scobey declared that “Egyptians are very free to speak out. The press debates so many things.” She then implied human rights organizations are free to investigate human rights abuses. ...
  1 week ago

• Enough With The Mindless Chauvinism

  
  A Moroccan About the world around him — Authority: 402
  To read the urgent rallying cries in the slogan riddled open letters and petitions circulated by some Moroccan associations in the U.S. against the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights for its support of Aminatou Haider, to browse the chauvinistic comments charged up readers posted on ...
  1 week ago

• Sri Lanka Makes Journalism an Act of Terrorism

  
  learning.now — Authority: 671
  As of December 10, J.S. Tissainayagam, a respected Tamil journalist and editor, had served the first 100 days of a 20-year sentence in a Sri Lankan jail. In his World Press Freedom Day statement, President Obama cited Tissainayagam as an "emblematic example" of a journalist who was being persecuted. Amnesty ...
  1 week ago

• About Marinette / Menominee – Sons and Daughters of Liberty

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 125
  We are a Marinette, WI / Menominee, MI (Twin Cities) group with people from all over northeastern WI and the U.P. of Michigan. Our last Tea Party in Marinette at UW Marinette had over two hundred people in attendance. All of these northeastern Wisconsin and U.P. of Michigan Patriots, attending the Tea Party ...
  1 week ago

• Drug traffickers pressurise Mexicos journalists

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  Drug traffickers are increasingly seeking to influence the editorial line at a southern Mexico newspaper as it reports the countrys drug wars.
  1 week ago

• You cannot legislate prosperity

  
  New Trommetter Times — Authority: 135
  “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.  What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.  The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.  When half of the people ...
  1 week ago

• Separation of Press and State

  
  Hennessy's View — Authority: 114
  Borrowing liberally from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, let’s adopt this manifesto of our resolve to keep the government from taking over (via voluntary non-profit status) the free press in the United States: Americans have more publishing freedom than any people in world history. We can ...
  2 weeks ago

• Californias Most Courageous Newspaperman

  
  CalAware Today — Authority: 419
  FREE PRESS -- Tim Crews, editor and publisher of a small community newspaper in Glenn County and a member of the board of directors of Californians Aware, was named the California Press Associations Newspaper Executive of the Year at an awards dinner at the Marines Memorial in San Francisco this past Friday.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Activities of The US Government Smack of Tyranny

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 125
  When any government suggests that they can vote to take away the rights of the minority for the benefit of the majority, that is tyranny. When 51%, can tell the other 49%, that their rights are subservient to the greater good and that they are inhibiting the progress of the whole, that is tyranny. When ...
  2 weeks ago

• Le prix de la liberté de la presse décerné à l’israélienne Amira Hass

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  ed: Bravo pour Amira, car elle est crucifiée tous les jours par les Israéliens.Le prix Reporters sans frontières – Fnac a été attribué à la journaliste israélienne Amira Hass lors d’une cérémonie, animée par le journaliste Bernard de La Villardière, qui a eu lieu à l’Espace Fondation EDF, à Paris, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Great moments in the history of the 1st amendment

  
  Beers with Demo — Authority: 434
  Apparently, the Federal Trade Commission is having a jobs summit of its own but is focusing on how to rescue the journalism industry and one of the keynote speakers this week was Henry Waxman (D-Mars) who trooped down from the Hill in order to make his case for a government bailout of the newsies. "We cannot ...
  2 weeks ago

• Democrats: Criminalizing Dissent

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 125
  From Hot Air posted at 3:34 pm on December 3, 2009 by Mitch_Berg Share on Facebook | Democrats Diane Feinstein and Dick “Turban” Durbin – who have long been the Dems’ official trial-balloon-floaters for assaults on free speech like the “Fairness Doctrine” – are proposing an amendment to a Senate ...
  2 weeks ago

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