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Censorship at the source: the worst kind
Ombudsman Maximum access to government information is a fundamental right and a shared responsibility of both the press and the public.
05.02.00
Free air time for candidates carries a high price
Ombudsman 'Money … is not speech,' Justice Stephens wrote in his concurrence to the majority opinion in Nixon v. Shrink, the recent Supreme Court decision upholding a Missouri law's limits on political campaign contributions.
04.07.00
The magic of movies vs. the mind of the censor
Ombudsman It's easy to dismiss Sunday night's annual Academy Awards event as a celebration of celebrity and an exercise in hype, ego and excess. It was all that and a made-for-television ratings grab, too.
03.28.00
The silencing of a courtroom critic
Ombudsman Scott Huminski is what you might call a 'citizen-reporter.' Until a year ago, he was a constant and careful observer of court proceedings in Rutland, Vt., passing on to the public his thoughts about judges and their rulings.
03.21.00
Access and technology: Change as an excuse for closure
Ombudsman Information is the currency of democracy.
03.13.00
Surfing the Net for compulsions and addictions
Ombudsman Just when we thought we had run out of things to worry about, psychologists at Stanford and Duquesne universities last week alerted us to a new menace: hundreds of thousands of 'cybersex compulsives' wandering about the land untethered.
03.06.00
Target practice on the First Amendment
Ombudsman Remember the Juvenile Justice bill? That's the legislation that members of Congress festooned with overwrought proposals in an attempt to appear to be doing something about the high school shooting tragedy in Littleton, Colo. The bill faded from the public mind after contentious arguments broke out over gun proposals.
02.28.00
Shut up and eat everything on your plate
Ombudsman 'Free speech not only lives, it rocks!' TV talk show queen Oprah Winfrey exulted after a federal judge dismissed a multimillion lawsuit against her by Texas cattlemen outraged by remarks she and a guest made on one of her shows. That was in February 1998.
02.21.00
Forget banning books, let's burn the library
Ombudsman The library is a monument to all the best impulses in the human mind and spirit. It is a tribute to wisdom and understanding. No community is complete without one.
02.14.00
Openness, order must coexist in court
Ombudsman For two centuries, the nine justices of the Supreme Court have represented the judicial branch of our government as the president of the United States delivered the annual State of the Union address.
01.31.00
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