Issues
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- HHS - Freedom of Information Act
- US Health and Human Services site to facilitate efforts to obtain public information about HHS programs. How to request information, and a reading room of frequently requested documents.
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- Media Law Resource Center
- Includes annotated bibliography of legal cases, scholarly papers, and articles concerning First Amendment and intellectual property Internet law issues. The 200 court cases are explained succinctly. Also includes many citations from the print media.
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- The First Amendment and Freedom of the Press
- Essay by James C. Goodale on court cases in which First Amendment rights have been upheld, allowing the press to pursue its mission. Goodale served as general counsel to The New York Times when the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Times could continue to publish the then-classified Pentagon Papers.
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- U.S. Department of State FOIA Electronic Reading Room
- Displays (a) frequently requested documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), (b) special collections of continuing public interest, and (c) regulations, policy statements, administrative rulings and manuals, and other reference materials.
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- Minorities in Broadcasting Training Program
- Administers a training program for minority college graduates, job placement assistance, achievement awards.
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- Not likely sent: The Remington-Hearst "telegrams"
- Article by associate professor W. Joseph Campbell challenging an enduring anecdote of yellow journalism. He maintains there is little if any evidence of the exchange of telegrams between Remington and Hearst.
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- Wikipedia - Parachute journalism
- Describes an often derogatory term used to denote the reportage of mere basic details devoid of contextual issues or facts.
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- Miners and Media
- Crispin Hull's insight about the use of chequebook journalism as the Australian TV networks bid for the exclusive rights to the story of two miners rescued from a collapsed mine in Beaconsfield. (May 13, 2006)
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