Jeffrey Addicott looks at how Barack Obama is wearing rosy glasses when he says the war on terror is over. This segment aired on The Source April 26 2012. Ezra Levant
The other day a Federal Appeals Court struck down an FCC ban on political ads on PBS. Reuters reports that: By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the Federal Communications Commission violated the First Amendment’s free speech clause by blocking public broadcasters from running [...]
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UPDATED TO ADD, from the White House, the Executive Order Blocking the Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain Persons with Respect to Grave Human Rights Abuses by the Governments of Iran and Syria via Information Technology, a Fact Sheet, and a letter to House Speaker John A. Boehner on the executive order. [...]
Rupert and James Murdoch are set to give evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards next week. Two days have been set aside for Rupert Murdoch’s long-awaited appearance, as the Inquiry moves into its third module, looking at the relationship between press and politicians. The media mogul is likely to be quizzed about his [...]
A BELATED posting of a presentation at the recent PINA Pacific Media Summit in Pacific Harbour that took a swipe at the Australian and New Zealand media coverage on Fiji. This was part of a panel discussing social media and credibility: By Leone Cabenatabua, publications manager of the Fiji Sun Should the public believe social [...]
In an opinion column at the Washington Post, the Brookings Institution’s Benjamin Wittes and John Villasenor discuss privacy and other problems with the use of aerial drones (also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, “UAVs”) to conduct surveillance in the United States. Earlier this year, the FAA reauthorization bill was passed, which includes a provision to integrate [...]
