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      Federal Judge Blocks Online Pornography Law

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      “Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection,” Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over a four-week trial last fall, wrote in the decision today, The Associated Press reported.

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    • N.Y. Times Must Surrender Reporters' Phone Data

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      The New York Times may not withhold reporters' phone records from a federal grand jury investigating an alleged leak of a pending government raid on two Islamic charities suspected of supporting terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The government's interest in rooting out a possible crime outweighs the newspaper's interest in protecting reporters' sources, the court concluded.

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    • Blogger Jailed After Defying Court Orders

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      A freelance journalist and blogger was jailed on Tuesday after refusing to turn over video he took at an anticapitalist protest here last summer and after refusing to testify before a grand jury looking into accusations that crimes were committed at the protest. Mr. Wolf, who posted some of the edited video on his Web site, www.joshwolf.net, and sold some of it to local television stations, met with investigators, who wanted to see the raw video. But Mr. Wolf refused to hand over the tapes, arguing that he had the right as a journalist to shield his sources. On Tuesday, Judge Alsup disagreed, ruling that the grand jury “has a legitimate need” to see what Mr. Wolf filmed.

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    • GOP bill targets NY Times

      Posted by Billbar from The Hill

      House Republican leaders are expected to introduce a resolution today condemning The New York Times for publishing a story last week that exposed government monitoring of banking records. The Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal all reported the existence of the program on their websites last Thursday.

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    • Government Accountability Project

      Posted by Billbar from Kurtnimmo

      The Senate yesterday acted quickly to plug a government accountability loophole created less than one month ago, when a Supreme Court decision canceled constitutional free speech rights for government workers carrying out their job duties.

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    Billbar comments on:

    GOP bill targets NY Times

    Still, it makes me kinda sick.

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    7:23 am 6/29/06
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    Imprisoning journalists

    One of the most striking aspects of these escalating attacks on the press is just how silent the major media outlets are about any of this. The Attorney General threatened journalists with prison this weekend on national television. Shouldn't the Times and the Post be editorializing against those threats, at the very least? And yet, from what I've seen today, no newspaper has published an editorial response to the administration. Just silence.

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    10:33 am 5/22/06
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