ombudsman columns
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Zoning out the First Amendment
Ombudsman The First Amendment often frustrates the efforts of local government officials to punish adult businesses.
07.19.99
Dr. Laura: Wronging our rights in the library
Ombudsman While radio talk host Dr. Laura Schlessinger complains about online porn and pedophilia, the librarians she blames carefully craft acceptable Internet-use policies and provide a tap on the shoulder to those who don't adhere.
07.12.99
Notwithstanding the Constitution ...
Ombudsman Here's the game politicians are playing with First Amendment freedoms: When problems prove hard to solve, outlaw offending speech so it looks like we're doing something.
07.06.99
State of the First Amendment:A survey of public attitudes
Ombudsman Most Americans celebrate the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment. Yet they are not entirely comfortable with those freedoms. They are constantly reevaluating their commitment to First Amendment rights and values and rearranging their priorities, asking themselves whether life would be more civil, more orderly, less threatening if the excesses of expression were somehow subdued.
07.02.99
Toying with free speech
Ombudsman Washington Redskins fullback John Riggins raised a few eyebrows several years ago when he told Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at some Washington gala, Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up.
06.28.99
When judges keep press at bay, the public is thereal loser
Ombudsman Last week, a federal court of appeals in
California issued an opinion that might be
characterized fairly as a footnote in the infamous
Unabomber case.
06.14.99
Unlearning liberty: children in democratic limbo
Ombudsman The concept of freedom is becoming largely academic in the nation's schools.
06.07.99
Testimony before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Environment
Ombudsman Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee. My name is Paul McMasters. I am here today testifying on behalf of the American Society of Newspapers Editors as a member of that organization's Freedom of Information Committee.
05.26.99
Murder by the book: Free speech takes a hit
Ombudsman Publisher's decision to settle in murder case involving Hit Man murder manual demonstrates how vulnerable formerly unassailable speech has become.
05.24.99
V-chipping away at your TV choices
Ombudsman We move ever closer to the day when the government will be watching ever more closely what you watch on television.
05.17.99
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