In response to hundreds of letters from FAIR activists, PBS Ombud Michael Getler (7/16/10) agreed with FAIR’s criticism (Action Alert, 7/12/10) of the 3-hour PBS documentary Turmoil and Triumph, a tribute to former Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz funded in part by institutions and individuals with close ties to Shultz.
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FAIR Activism Update: PBS Ombudsman Agrees That PBS Series Turmoil and Triumph Has a “Credibility Problem”
July 20th, 2010[Criminal*] Columbia Studies Halted at Brain Lab Over Impure Injections in Mentally Ill?
July 18th, 2010By Ed Kent
Kent, a retired Brooklyn College philosophy professor, is writing in reference to the New York Times article, headlined: “Studies Halted at Brain Lab Over Impure Injections”
I am appalled to learn that Columbia (where I earned my Ph.D.) has been injecting mental patients with dangerous drugs as research.
*Criminal: Ed Kent’s original usage on his blog.
NYCLU Applauds Governor David A. Paterson for Signing Stop-and-Frisk Database Bill into Law
July 16th, 2010In 2007, the NYCLU started the campaign to challenge this heinous NYPD “practice of keeping a computer database of completely innocent people who have been stopped, questioned or frisked by police officers.” Since 2004, the NYPD has stopped and interrogated people nearly 3 million times, predominately people of color, African Americans and Hispanics.
“We applaud Governor Paterson for pulling the plug on the NYPD’s sprawling database of innocent black and Latino New Yorkers,” said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman, according to a statement posted at the NYCLU website. “Innocent people stopped by the police for doing nothing more than going to school, work or the subway should not become permanent criminal suspects. By signing this bill, the Paterson administration has put itself on the right side of history and leaves an important legacy in support of civil rights, civil liberties and common sense.”
NY Governor David A. Paterson Signs “Stop and Frisk” Bill into Law
July 16th, 2010By New York State Office of the Governor – Press Release
Governor David A. Paterson today signed into law A.11177-A/S.7945-A, or the “Stop and Frisk” legislation, which prohibits the retention, in an electronic database, the personal information of individuals who are stopped, questioned and frisked by police, but are not charged with a crime or violation. The “stop, question and frisk” technique is used when a police officer reasonably suspects that an individual has committed or is about to commit a misdemeanor or felony. While this law does not prohibit the use of that technique, it ends the practice of storing the personal information that is collected in the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) database. The bill applies only to stops in New York City.
Covering Elections in 2010: A Training Workshop for Ethnic and Community Media Journalists
July 15th, 2010At the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, today, beginning at 10 a.m. Co-sponsored by New York Community Media Alliance:
With the economy and politics in turmoil, what are the election trends? Who do we watch, why and how do we get the story? Please join a panel of experts who can help shed light on how state and city governments work; who holds the purse strings; how to measure what’s happening on the ground; what all this could mean to your community.
The Plot Thickens!
July 11th, 2010
Lebron, Part 1
July 11th, 2010Legions are happy that Lebron is going to Miami. Other legions are unhappy and some are real sourpusses.* And, not to be overlooked, are the legions and legions and legions that feel unaffected, one way or the other, and would say that if they were polled (though it isn’t difficult to believe that, imagining their seconds of news recognition à la Andy Warhol, that many might sigh or gripe or offer critique to the camera/mikes in their faces because it isn’t everyday that a news organization is interested in what they opine).
{ Google: Lebron James, About 22,300,000 results (0.15 seconds) – July 11, 9:43 a.m.}
Former WORD Senior Editors, Alieu Sheriff and Rodney Sieh, a WORD African Connection
July 5th, 2010The short version:
Before hunterword.com there was theword.hunter.cuny.edu and early on with the latter there were Alieu Sheriff and Rodney Sieh, who, as teens, had been chased out of, first, Gambia, then Liberia because of their news critical of government practices and policies. In Liberia, when word went out that they were to be shot on sight … Read the rest of this entry »
Women’s Sports Gets 1.6 Percent of Local TV News Sports Coverage
July 21st, 201007/13/2010 by Julie Hollar/FAIR Blog
Tags: ESPN, FAIR, Fred Rogan at KNBC, Jim Hill at KCBS, Michael Messner, women's sports
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