Ombudsman columns

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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

The media: bells, whistles and flashing lights
Ombudsman If you thought that news about the media couldn't get any more bizarre, you haven't been paying attention.  01.26.00

Free speech is not always just about the First Amendment
Ombudsman Atlanta Braves' pitcher John Rocker is catching a lot of flack from minority groups, the commissioner of baseball, his boss, his teammates, the mayor of New York, and just about everyone else with a conscience or a microphone. There's even a special Web site devoted to flaming Rocker.  01.11.00

First Amendment: Surviving Year 2000 challenges
Ombudsman Since the World War I era, First Amendment freedoms have been firmly internalized by our social, political and legal systems. But the eternal urge to censor speech has not been tamed. Thus, Americans pay lip service to free speech but don't trust it any further than the tips of their own tongues.  01.03.00

Press faces new year of old problems
Ombudsman Ethical lapses, adverse court decisions, public hostility, media-reform proposals threaten press's independence.  12.28.99

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