Jakarta Police have arrested The Jakarta Post Chief Editor Meidyatama Suryodiningrat. He was charged with blasphemy for the publication of a cartoon mocking the jihadist group Islamic State The cartoon published on July 3 depicted a flag emblazoned with the Arabic phrases “La ilaha Illallah,�[...]
Posts Tagged ‘free press’
November 7th, 2014 - 12:53 pm § in Misc.
FBI Admits Committing Identity Theft To Catch A Bomb Suspect
Last month, the Seattle Times reported the FBI created a fake Seattle Times web page to nab a 15-year-old kid who threatened to bomb a school, and expressed its outrage. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024888170_fbinewspaper1xml.html Yesterday, FBI director James Comey admitted in a letter t[...]
October 26th, 2014 - 11:32 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Privacy and free speech at the UW.
This post is based on a letter I recently wrote as editor of THE-Ave.US to a UW Prof who was upset that a post on TA had referred to a conversation the Prof had posted on the AAUP listserv. My letter, written as gmail, raises two important points. First, unlike most other large universities[...]
March 26th, 2014 - 12:06 am § in China
CHINA: Leaks from the State Censors
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by Chinese government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. State Council Information Office: Immediately remove the following from all websites: (1) information related to “supporting and rescuing Tang Jitian and other[...]
March 24th, 2014 - 8:05 am § in Misc.
A world without free speech
This campaign is focused on free press in foreign countries. As an avid (and unusual) reader of the world press, however, I am less than sanguine about our own media. The sad fact is that a small number of media giants control almost all of our media. We get very little news of critical events [&h[...]
RUSSIA’s Freedom of the Press
The Moscow News temporarily stops publication 17:57 14/03/2014 The Moscow News has temporarily ceased updating materials on its news website, Facebook page and Twitter account due to the liquidation process and reorganization of its parent company, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti[...]
SEATTLE TIMES to run free ads for Republicans only
“There is absolutely no interface between our news coverage and this effort: We realize some people may question the approach, but we hope they will give us the benefit of the doubt as we try an innovative approach to new revenue and, at the same time, raise awareness of the credibility and effe[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Replaces First Amendment with Pay to Play Ruling
Supreme Court Strikes Down Overall Political Donation Cap New York Times - by Adam Liptak - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday continued its abolition of limits on election spending, striking down a decades-old cap on … Letter written by Lenin in 1921 Lenin G. Myasnikov [...]