1+ week, 1+ day ago  (415+ words) This Saturday is the White House Correspondents" Association Dinner (WHCA). And there"s been ample criticism of journalists that plan to have giggles and cocktails with overt fascists, given this helps normalize of one of the most racist, censorial, and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (931+ words) There are defamation lawsuits designed to win, and then there are defamation lawsuits designed to generate headlines for your fans on social media, punish journalists, and maybe " if you're lucky " force a settlement or intimidate future reporting. FBI Director Kash…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (542+ words) We covered the DOJ's demands on Apple back in October and FIRE's subsequent lawsuit in February. As we explained then, the case seemed quite straightforward, and now the district court has agreed. Two days later, Facebook disabled the group. That…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1164+ words) But now, First Amendment lawyer Bob Corn-Revere has published an open letter to Carr that is, frankly, one of the most devastating things I've read in years. And you really should go read the whole thing. Oh, and he served…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (333+ words) A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's executive order last year defunding PBS and NPR violated the First Amendment, and has issued a permanent injunction insisting that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it. But the ruling may come too…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1398+ words) The problem is that most of the story is utter nonsense. Medvi is technically not a one-person $1 billion company, since Mr. Gallagher hired his brother and has some contractors. The start-up, which has not raised outside funding, also has no…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (739+ words) Right wing broadcasters are having a very good time under Brendan Carr, who has looked to destroy all remaining media consolidation limits to let them merge. Such companies, like Sinclair, Nexstar, and Tegna, don't do journalism so much as they…...

1+ mon, 4+ hour ago  (1127+ words) Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship to become the only woman journalist to land on Normandy Beach on D-Day. She carried stretchers before writing'her harrowing account'of the invasion. The New Yorker's'famously epicurean writer'A. J. Liebling subsisted on military rations…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (553+ words) As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going about as well for the officers as their original botched raid on his home. Today we can report the inevitable…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1097+ words) Last month we reported on a strange story in two strange parts: first, a coder had his AI agent create an entire smear campaign against a coding repository volunteer because he rejected AI code. Second, an Ars Technica journalist named…...