Journalists aren’t faring well covering the world’s wars today where some 150 have been killed in the last year. And they aren’t faring well here at home as the U.S. president seeks to punish those with whom he disagrees. Just yesterday The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed alarm after a six-person jury on Thursday convicted […]
I was recently disquieted when I watched a film from 2006 called “War Made Easy.” It is based on a book by the same name by former columnist Norman Solomon and narrated by Sean Penn. RootsAction The film was offered by a group, RootsAction, that works to promote equal justice and end war. On its […]
Washington Post Associate Editor Eugene Robinson reminds us in a heart-breaking column that Tulsa wasn’t the only place in America where massacres of black citizens occurred at the hands of whites. Tulsa’s 100th anniversary While Tulsa is receiving notoriety on its 100th anniversary, other communities suffered too. Robinson says, “No one should be under the […]
When the Founding Fathers placed the First Amendment to the Constitution first, I think that was by design. That amendment, while protecting freedom of the press, also protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances. Marketplace of Ideas While the press was fiery […]
I was saddened to read a New York Times piece recently that said a loose network of conservative operatives will begin discrediting news organizations hostile to the President. That’s not so new. But the method is. They plan to do so by publicizing damaging information about individual journalists and even their family members in some […]