Taken to Task. Memphis Safe Task Force agents reportedly have
harassed and intimidated civilians who document their activities, in a violation
of their First Amendment rights, according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU.
■ Courts have historically recognized the recording of law enforcement agents performing official actions in public as a First Amendment right.
■ Free speech or race-baiting? The attempted-murder charge against livestreamer “Chud the Builder” has stoked debate in a small Tennessee town.
■ The redrawing of Tennessee congressional districts is being challenged on First Amendment grounds in two federal lawsuits.
Mo’ mocking. Although Stephen Colbert has departed
the late-night TV airwaves, the other hosts that President Trump has tried to
get off the air are mocking him even more, according to a Washington Post
analysis.
■ Disney’s claim that “The View” is a bona fide news program, making it exempt from equal-time rules for political candidates, is outrageous, contended David Spector in The New York Post.
■ Courts have historically recognized the recording of law enforcement agents performing official actions in public as a First Amendment right.
■ Free speech or race-baiting? The attempted-murder charge against livestreamer “Chud the Builder” has stoked debate in a small Tennessee town.
■ The redrawing of Tennessee congressional districts is being challenged on First Amendment grounds in two federal lawsuits.
■ Disney’s claim that “The View” is a bona fide news program, making it exempt from equal-time rules for political candidates, is outrageous, contended David Spector in The New York Post.
■ AG Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times,
criticized news outlets in a Yale Law School speech for caving to pressure from
the Trump administration to alter their coverage.
■ Rather than invite potential controversy, many schools have decided to cancel graduation speeches, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Dinner plan. Weeks after a gunman caused havoc at the
White House Correspondents’ Association dinner the event has yet to be rescheduled.
Some question whether it should continue at all.
■ New York City is reviewing its press-credential policy after supporters of murder suspect Luigi Mangione used city-issued press passes to make inflammatory remarks. First Amendment experts warn that restricting access based on controversial speech would amount to viewpoint discrimination.
■ New York City is reviewing its press-credential policy after supporters of murder suspect Luigi Mangione used city-issued press passes to make inflammatory remarks. First Amendment experts warn that restricting access based on controversial speech would amount to viewpoint discrimination.
■ A federal judge has ruled that the White House must comply with the Presidential Records Act despite an opinion from the Justice Department that it was unconstitutional.
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning newsrooms quietly have been publishing gambling slop as news articles, a Popular Information analysis discovered.
Meme streak. Jailed for 37 days over a meme he posted
on Facebook after the killing of conservation activist Charlie Kirk, a
Tennessee man has settled his First Amendment lawsuit for $835,000.
■ A Florida biologist who was fired over a Charlie Kirk online post and subsequently sued to be reinstated has been awarded $485,000 in a settlement with the state.
■ Courtroom cameras will not be banned in Charlie Kirk’s murder trial, a Utah judge has ruled.
■ Rejecting the prevailing notion of the separation of church and state is one recommendation of President Trump’s religious-liberty commission.
Deep thoughts. Media scion James Murdoch, saying he
is intent on “longer-form, thoughtful journalism,” is acquiring half of Vox
Media for $300 million.
■ For a second time in five months, The New York Times has sued the Defense Department over a required Pentagon escort policy for journalists that it claims violates the First Amendment.
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning newsrooms quietly have been publishing gambling slop as news articles, a Popular Information analysis discovered.
■ A Florida biologist who was fired over a Charlie Kirk online post and subsequently sued to be reinstated has been awarded $485,000 in a settlement with the state.
■ Courtroom cameras will not be banned in Charlie Kirk’s murder trial, a Utah judge has ruled.
■ Rejecting the prevailing notion of the separation of church and state is one recommendation of President Trump’s religious-liberty commission.
■ For a second time in five months, The New York Times has sued the Defense Department over a required Pentagon escort policy for journalists that it claims violates the First Amendment.
■ Federal charges tied to a church protest has left journalist Georgia Fort unable to interview sources, limiting her ability to do her job.
■ As CBS News Radio has gone silent so has the demand that U.S. media should serve the public interest, declared a Penn State professor in an analysis for The Conversation.
■ Longtime reporter and editor Frank Gibson, who founded an open-government coalition in Tennessee to educate journalists and citizens that eventually helped shape public-records law, has died.
■ As CBS News Radio has gone silent so has the demand that U.S. media should serve the public interest, declared a Penn State professor in an analysis for The Conversation.
■ Longtime reporter and editor Frank Gibson, who founded an open-government coalition in Tennessee to educate journalists and citizens that eventually helped shape public-records law, has died.
