PARIS (AP) — Reporters Without Borders says the Arab Spring is changing the face of Internet freedom. The media watchdog published its annual “Enemies of the Internet” report Monday, listing countries that curtail freedom of expression on and access to the Web. The group has put Bahrain on its enemies list, citing a news blackout [...]
Filmmakers Steve Mims and Joe Bailey Jr.’s first feature collaboration resulted in the documentary”Incendiary: The Willingham Case”. Along with David Grann’s New Yorker piece, “Trial By Fire,” the film has become an essential part of the canon of journalism devoted to the trial and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham — the Corsicana, Texas, man who was convicted [...]
Having devoted significant attention to Rick Perry’s role in the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, let’s turn our attention to what could potentially be Rick Perry’s next controversial execution — Duane Edward Buck’s, currently scheduled for Thursday. The Buck case, it should be noted, is dissimilar from the Willingham case in many vital ways — the most [...]
Good morning everyone, and welcome to your Sunday Morning Liveblog of the political chat shows, Hurricane Irene edition. I hope all of you who are or were in the path of the hurricane are safe and dry. The last hurricane I disrespected was Hurricane Isabel, and she dropped a 250-year-old tree on my car. So, [...]
The Houston Press has released a list of the “10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List.” Next to the mugshots (for which the Village Voiceaffiliate warns, “In some cases, we picked out the best of a series of mugshots. Alternative choices were starkly different. So click on each link before you send any marriage [...]
It’s often said that the best defense is a good offense, and in the case of Village Voice Media their attack on Ashton Kutcher was a preemptive strike aimed at changing the topic. A bit of background… When the online classified ads provider Craiglist closed the adult services section of its website last fall, it [...]
Ed Schultz apologized on Tuesday for playing a clip of Texas Gov. Rick Perry out of context. On Monday, Schultz played footage of Perry seeming to refer to President Obama as a “big black cloud” over America. Schultz said this was evidence of latent racism in the Republican field. In fact, Perry was talking about the [...]
You know, from time to time, I have reason to opine that it seems as if Washington, D.C. — home to your affluent, well-to-do politicians and the affluent, well-to-do political media that chronicles their escapades — lives in an entirely different world from the rest of America. Typically, the way the economy gets covered is [...]
A former News of the World reporter has alleged that there was a massive cover-up of phone hacking at the paper. Clive Goodman, the former royal reporter jailed for his role in phone hacking, wrote a letter in 2007 claiming that phone hacking was “widely discussed” at editorial meetings, and that former editor Andy Coulson offered [...]
Hello everyone! Welcome to your Sunday Morning Liveblog! My name is Jason, and I was wondering: where were you when Michele Bachmann won the 2011 Ames Straw Poll? Or, as the Associated Press, put it, when “XXX” won the Ames Straw Poll, because the event was so unimportant in the larger scheme of things that the same [...]
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