June 2012
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Texas court finds environmental website publisher... →
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:
Judge Trey E. Loftin of the 43rd Judicial District Court in Weatherford, Texas, found that Wilson is not protected under the state’s shield law because “she did not create her blog for the purpose of making money.” The judge also noted that Wilson had no formal education in journalism and made no claims of total objectivity.
When we pass shield...
May 2012
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April 2012
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March 2012
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Pa. College Journalist Arrested while... →
Philadelphia Police Department policy urges police to expect and accept that they will be photographed while on duty.
“As such,” the policy reads, “police personnel shall not interfere with any member of the general public or individuals temporarily detained from photographing, videotaping or audibly recording police personnel while conducting official business or while engaging in an...
February 2012
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Freedom of Information Day Award Ceremony with Amy... →
Join the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information in celebrating Freedom of Information day. This year’s ceremony will include a presentation by Amy Goodman, award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and the host of Democracy Now!.
Friday, March 23rd, 2012, 4:00 pm
Hennepin County Library - Minneapolis Central, Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall,...
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“The White House keeps praising these journalists who are, who’ve been...”
– - Jake Tapper, pressing White House press secretary Jay Carney on what one might consider to be inconsistency on the administration’s views of doing journalism in the interests of democracy.
Yahoo’s Cutline blog has video, and a full transcript.
[Update: 2/23/12 2:20 p.m.: forgot...
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Anonymous asked: do you go to andover high school?
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Tatro v. University of Minnesota: a big one for...
The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Tatro v. University of Minnesota tomorrow morning, a case which addresses the question of how much power universities should have to punish students for speech posted online, and off campus. (I wrote about it in the Silha Bulletin last summer.)
The case arose in 2010 following a series of Facebook posts by Amanda Tatro, a student in the...
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"Ride hard. Don't be a dick." →
Video, Stupor Bowl XIV, 2011.
Looks like a bit less snow this year.
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Hubbard Broadcasting gives $100,000 to Karl Rove's... →
Obligatory occasional link to work David Brauer is doing that you should know about.
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“There was no reason to detain Ferral, other than police didn’t know what...”
– - John Drescher, editor, Raleigh News & Observer.
via Romenesko, “Town Apologizes for Arresting News & Observer Reporter”
January 2012
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“Mr. Bryan confirmed that he had posted on his Tweeter website account that he...”
– A Department of Homeland Security memo on a British couple that was detained overnight upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport. Bryan explained that “destroy” is British slang for partying, and digging up Marilyn Monroe is a reference to the TV show Family Guy. (via officialssay)
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““Good lord, if people had asked tough questions … let me be blunt,...”
– - David Brauer’s interview with Gary Eichten (whose last Midday show was broadcast on MPR today) is a nice balance of the man’s views on journalism and personal professional history.
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8th Circuit: Police acted reasonably during GOP... →
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“It’s hard to think of many other journalists who have slogged through such a...”
– The Beat from Hell: Carol Rosenberg’s Decade Covering Gitmo (via nickbaumann)
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December 2011
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Christmas Fun Fact →
The tune for “Hark, The Herald Angels Sing” comes from a song Felix Mendelssohn wrote in 1840 to honor Johann Gutenberg and the bicentennial of the invention of the printing press.
Thanks to my big sister Erin for tossing this little knowledge nugget my way after church this morning.
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“In the pre-Web days, someone like Ms. Cox might have been one more obsessive in...”
– David Carr offers an alternative (and not entirely unreasonable) take on the Crystal Cox Affair.
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Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist,... →
BUT! It’s a bit more complicated than most of the media are reporting (as usual). If you look for the words “even if” in the opinion (scroll down), you’ll see why Cox would be on the hook for the $2.5. million regardless of whether she was considered a journalist.
The Oregon shield law at issue doesn’t apply to civil defamation cases, so not even The Oregonian would...
November 2011
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Manning Lawyer: White House, DIA found little... →
A decidedly one-sided report at this point, but the Wiki-leaker’s lawyer is citing the Obama administration’s own reports for the claim.
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Video: When Journalists Get Evicted Along With... →
Some interesting comments on the media “blackout” during the eviction of Occupy Wall Street this week. 2:33. Hat tip to Meagan.
(I wonder, though, whether it was Stelter or Carr who was like, “I know! Let’s wear scaaaarves.”)
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Minnesota Independent is shutting down →
minnpost:
American Independent CEO David Bennahum has confirmed Minnesota Independent’s closure.
Bummer. Real bummer.
(This is the second great post from Brauer today, by the way; a real treat since he’s ratcheted it back.)
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It's American Censorship Day →
Organizers claim that the PROTECT IP Act, which I doubt is being discussed at many dinner tables or on many Facebook walls, could essentially end the Internet as we know it.
The bill, which gets a hearing today, further criminalizes streaming copyrighted work, to the tune of a potential 5-year sentence for posting content that would cost more than $2,500 to license. This includes your Gaga...
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Peterson v. Western Union Tel. Co., 65 Minn. 18; 67 N.W. 646 (1896)
Minnesota Supreme Court rules that a telegraph message reading “Slippery Sam, your name is pants,” sent to State Senator Samuel Peterson (New Ulm) is libelous on its face.
(Later, in Peterson v. Western Union Tel. Co., 75 Minn. 368; 77 N.W. 985 (1899), the court ruled that the award of $2,000 was excessive...
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KSTP hit with $1 million defamation verdict |... →
The story raises many questions and answers few, including the one it seems weirdly obsessed with: whether the verdict is the most ever awarded by a Minnesota jury in a defamation trial.
Hopefully a more complete analysis is forthcoming from elsewhere soon.
Minneapolis: crazy libel verdict capital.
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Twins pick Brewers broadcaster Cory Provus to... →
Cory Provus, 33, who has spent the past three years as a Brewers radio broadcaster, will be officially joining the Twins on Thursday, replacing John Gordon, who retired after the season. Provus was the Brewers’ No. 2 radio broadcaster behind Hall of Famer Bob Uecker and was viewed as Uecker’s heir apparent.
Ambivalent about this. On one hand I really came to love listening to Ueck and Cory...
October 2011
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Hey, what's up Pioneer Press? Oh, you published a... →
fightwithknives:
Why isn’t the stuff about the Aurora Center and the assaults in the lead? Why are there no women quoted in this story? Why did only two frat chapters return the pledge to decrease assault? Why is all the focus on decreasing drinking and not eliminating sexual assault, which is the problem? Why are their grades even in the story?
Because Deborah’s criticism is spot on and...
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“Somebody’s gotta bring the 2-liter of Shasta. … Maybe you’re...”
– The Current’s Jill Riley, torturing a metaphor for contributing to public radio that compares it to a pot luck, where you don’t want to be the person who shows up without anything and eats anyway.
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Trial and Error | The Cavalier Daily →
Student editors at the University of Virginia are off the hook, but that doesn’t mean they’re backing down.
Earlier.
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U. of Virginia editor faces charges for telling... →
Apparently officials at the University of Virginia have decided to substitute the founding principles of Thomas Jefferson with those inspired by George Orwell.
After reporting about a plagiarist on staff and reporting the offending writer to the school’s Honor Committee, the editors were themselves charged with violating the confidentiality of the committee.
According to The Hook:
In a...
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“This is completely normal. It is totally not a pretext for malicious joy and so...”
– - Dmitiri S. Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s Press Secretary, explaining that the well-publicized footage of Putin “discovering” ancient ceramic jugs while scuba diving at an archeological site, was a set-up.
Also, something I want printed on a t-shirt immediately.
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Watchminnpost:
In other court news, a settlement has been reached over arrest of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! producers at the 2008 GOP convention.
According to The Associated Press and Democracy Now!, Goodman and her producers will receive $100,000: $90,000 from St. Paul and Minneapolis, and $10,000 from the Secret Service. I assume the St. Paul end of that bill will come out of the $10 Million...
September 2011
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“The second some jerkoff hits a computer key, he thinks he’s a journalist. These...”
– Roger Ailes, Fox News Channel president, on bloggers. (via newsweek)
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“Better to say a player hit a home run, rather than he ‘walloped’ or...”
– - The Associated Press has released its World Series style guide.
I would add an exception to the “no taters” rule for Jimmers.
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Happy Banned Books Week everybody! You know how to... →