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  • Free speech is threatened - (Bruce Kesler on McCain-Feingold, implications for internet sites)

    03/13/2005 8:32:07 PM PST · by CHARLITE · 19 replies · 755+ views
    AUGUSTA FREE PRESS.COM ^ | MARCH 13, 2005 | BRUCE KESLER
    Settled jurisprudence was fairly settled against prior restraints on free speech, except for "shouting fire in a crowded theater" immediate causes of grave harm. Then, along came the McCain-Feingold electoral reforms. McCain-Feingold's supposedly greater interest of restricting the role of big money in campaigns allowed legal and donor restrictions on campaigning. The media is exempt from restrictions. Critics of McCain-Feingold called it an incumbent protection act to reduce the resources of challengers. Realists said McCain-Feingold would result in contributions flowing some way anyway. Opponents of McCain-Feingold warned it restricted free speech, and this could increase. If free speech is surrendered...
  • Newspaper sale$ decline should be blamed on the Journos - (Love this one!)

    01/04/2005 8:31:14 PM PST · by CHARLITE · 11 replies · 1,293+ views
    JEWISH WORLD REVIEW.COM ^ | JANUARY 4, 2005 | JACK KELLY
    The best editor in America today isn't a journalist. He's Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, also known as the "Instapundit." He's endangering my livelihood. I used to say that I was in a declining industry, but fortunately, I was declining faster than it was. Now I'm not so sure. Journalists tend not to like bloggers, because they report on errors we make. Dan Rather and former New York Times editor Howell Raines are unemployed chiefly because of the vigilance and tenacity of bloggers. (We journalists rarely turn the spotlights we use on business leaders...