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Leader of lapdog press calls records seizure 'unconstitutional'
WASHINGTON - The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly. Gar ...
Unprotected border newspapers self-censor out of fear
LAREDO, Texas -- A recent wave of kidnappings in Nuevo Laredo was prominently featured in a recent Sunday edition of El Manana, one of the largest and most long-standing Spanish-language newspapers on the border. But the story carried no byline, and ...
Government, unions oppose newspaper sale to Koch brothers on political grounds
SACRAMENTO -- California legislative leaders and 10 public employee unions announced opposition Wednesday to any sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to a pair of wealthy brothers who fund conservative causes. In a letter da ...
What can happen in a leftwing echo chamber
U.S. journalist, author and CNN "Reliable Sources" host Howard Kurtz has been fired by The Daily Beast, website publisher Tina Brown said Thursday. "@thedailybeast & @HowardKurtz have parted company...we wish him well," Brown said on Twitter. Kurtz, ...
Now hiring in Chicago: Al-Jazeera America
Al-Jazeera America, a new, U.S.-based extension of the media organization funded by the Qatar government, announced today that its existing Chicago bureau will expand significantly with several new hires, including on-air talent. "It is important for ...
NYPD Vindicated: Will the AP apologize?
Looks like it's time for the Associated Press to give back its Pulitzer Prize. Just as it's time for politicians - and especially the press - to stop chewing on Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's leg over the NYPD's so-far-enormously-successful anti-ter ...
Fox News reporter spared jail ... at least for now
For now Fox News reporter Jana Winter isn't heading to jail, at least not yet. Winter was in a Colorado court Wednesday facing contempt-of-court charges for refusing to reveal the name of a confidential source who gave her information about shooting ...
Broadcasters Worry About Homes Shutting Off TVs
LOS ANGELES - Some people have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped payi ...
Google's Latest Slap at Christians
Conservative commentators lashed out at Google (GOOG) over the company's decision to feature labor and civil rights legend Cesar Chavez, instead of an Easter-related theme, as its "Google Doodle" Sunday. Chavez was born March 31, 1927, and would have ...
No more gun and weapons ads on Comcast
[caption id="attachment_22521" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]Local gun shops in the Comcast Corp. cable-TV territory, which extends over an area of 50 million U.S. homes, won't have the option of advertising on Comcast after t ...
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