Ombudsman columns
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Pinning a label on violence in media
Ombudsman Someone should be keeping track of all the proposals coming out of Congress to regulate what the rest of us can see, hear and say. It is a long and scary list.
06.23.00
Plugging a leak by puncturing freedom
Ombudsman In Washington, where information is power, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence proposes to keep secrets by jailing those who talk to the press.
06.16.00
Why a bad deal by the press is a big deal to the public
Ombudsman We've come to expect a certain amount of silliness from television news operations.
06.01.00
Playboy signal-bleed case never should have been a case
Ombudsman Perhaps only die-hard First Amendment advocates welcomed yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that Congress violated our constitutional rights in trying to regulate sex-oriented cable channels, but all of us should be outraged that this silly, costly battle had to be fought in the first place.
05.23.00
The folly of reading the mind of the reader
Ombudsman Gershon Legman was a man of great accomplishments and interests, best remembered as the blood enemy of censors and their collaborators.
05.18.00
Don't just condemn censors, confront them
Ombudsman Trying to see 'the censors' side of things' only emboldens them; librarians, schools and others charged with keeping the flame of intellectual freedom must stand up to censorship, not try to accommodate it.
05.10.00
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
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