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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

Blaming media for social ills: convenient excuse
Ombudsman There is a saying among lawyers that bad facts make bad law. In its $25 million verdict against a tabloid TV show on May 7, a Michigan jury added a corollary: "Bad television makes terrible law."  05.10.99

Tough choice: journalist or jailbird
Ombudsman It's one thing to defend journalistic freedom and independence with bombast and rhetoric; quite another to surrender personal freedom and independence in a jail cell.  05.03.99

Journalists can't be cops, too
Ombudsman Several Michigan newspapers and television stations aren't faring very well in a struggle to preserve their independence from law enforcement.  04.16.99

When privacy and press rights collide
Ombudsman The facts around it have grown fuzzy and faded with the passage of 30 years but the singular image is as sharp today as it was the night it was imprinted in my memory.  03.29.99

Honoring Madison's constitutional legacy
Ombudsman On the map, the road wending through Virginia's beautiful Piedmont region is Highway 20.  03.22.99

National FOI Day: Access is the key to good government
Ombudsman Tomorrow is the birthday of James Madison, who labored to embed the principle of an informed citizenry in our civic compact. That is why across this nation, in ways large and small, March 16 is observed as National Freedom of Information Day.  03.15.99

Why the Starr 'muzzle' on Monica telling the full story?
Ombudsman Something like 70 million people not yet afflicted with scandal fatigue tuned in to watch Barbara Walter's two-hour interview with Monica Lewinsky Wednesday. And as entertained and titillated as they may have been, they did not get the whole story.  03.08.99

Scandalmania: The press just can't help itself
Ombudsman How did Juanita Broaddrick's accusation that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her in a Little Rock hotel in the spring of 1978 wind up on the front pages of mainstream newspapers 21 years later?  03.01.99

'Broadcasters not tending to their free-speech interests'
Ombudsman Broadcasters not tending to their free-speech interests  02.25.99

Exorcising the demons of television
Ombudsman Our night terrors from things that go bump on the television screen continue. Recent dispatches from the cultural wars:  02.22.99

When it comes to chemical threats, ignorance just isn't bliss
Ombudsman Forty million men, women and children in the United States live in the shadow of 66,000 plants harboring chemicals that could kill or maim indiscriminately if they escaped into the air we breathe.  02.15.99

Trampling freedom in a cyberpanic
Ombudsman It often appears that the nation's newspapers are peering into cyberspace through the wrong end of a telescope. In such an inverted view of the online world, where vagrant bits and pieces and bright flashes are made more ominous by distance, a cyberpanic sets in. The Internet looms in the lens as more threat than promise.  02.09.99

Fear of sex translates into laws on what we can say and show
Ombudsman Food can cause problems, too, but you don't see laws proposed to restrict pictures of food online.  02.01.99

Senate fiddles in secret while public burns
Ombudsman A good part of the reason most of us remember that riveting and remarkable 1990 public television series  01.25.99

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