A New Jersey court decision has determined that a writer in Washington State named Shellee Hale is not protected by New Jersey’s shield law protecting journalists from being forced to reveal their sources because… wait for it… the court says
A New Jersey court has ruled that bloggers are not journalists (now they’ve taken to the courts to establish this!). New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Judge Anthony J. Parrillo ruled last week that a blogger named Shellee Hale is not
The Garden State has a shield law for journalists, meaning the government cannot force reporters or opinion writers to reveal their sources. There is nothing more vigorously defended among journalists than the right to keep secret one’s anonymous sources in
The growing American protest movement has met the Obama Administration’s effort to regulate the Internet, as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been flooded with almost 50,000 individual demands to stay away from their broadband. Just as a majority of
Unlike the “experts” on both sides of the political spectrum who will state with absolute certainty who the Tea Partiers are and what they stand for (invariably to support the reporter’s political persuasion), we will admit that at this point
Tea Party “racism” has roused the Washington Post to editorial indignation, as racism — whether real or imagined — always does. “The angry faces at Tea Party rallies are eerily familiar,” ran a recent piece by Post columnist Colbert King,
David Weigel, at The Washington Post, asked me to comment on Michael Steele’s view of the so-called Southern Strategy. Speaking at DePaul University on April 20, RNC Chairman Michael Steele urged Republican leaders to work with the Tea Parties. He
The meme coming from the left is simple: right-wing activity leads to extremism. As early as last April democratic staffers on Capitol Hill were passing out press releases claiming the Town Hall attendees were “neo-Nazis.” Since then the claim has
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The Washington Post: The protest by hundreds of gun-rights advocates, billed as a national march in support of the Second Amendment, drew small but fervent groups to the
On March 27, 2010 writer Frank Rich was quoted in the New York Times Op-Ed section The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. Is this true? He then closed his article with Are these politicians so frightened of offending
The most dangerous place in D.C. may well be between retiring SEIU president Andy Stern and a microphone, but the next-most-dangerous place may be as a taxpayer paying for his work. Now, in an exit interview with the Washington Post’s
Liberal pundit Michael Kinsley once defined a political gaffe as an instance of a politician accidentally telling the truth. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., recently made a gaffe that fits Kinsley’s definition to a tee. In a
The Obama administration’s now-habitual restrictions on the media and press freedom on vital but politically touchy issues are the most severe, extreme and orchestrated ever witnessed in this nation. Reporters were shut out, for example, during Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin
To my media friends, Grow some and stand up to this guy. Obama is going into a back room and laughing at you. He uses you, he controls you. He has you right where he wants you, in his left
[youtube ApYih-e-1KI] Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, there was a political panel discussion that focused on the growing doubts over whether racial epithets had, in fact, been hurled at members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the day of
From Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress. This letter will appear as a full page ad in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal and and Washington Post: WJC_letter_wsj-r5 –
In a follow-up to my story this morning and my ongoing series about the CIA’s viscous war on the Department of Defense, the Washington Post is reporting that the CIA’s Deputy Director, Steven Kappes will “retire.” While I have been
In a follow-up to my story this morning and my ongoing series about the CIA’s vicious war on the Department of Defense that is partly being waged in the pages of the nation’s major newspapers, the Washington Post is reporting
Some of you may have read the article by Krissah Thompson recently in the Washington Post entitled “Some black conservatives question tea party’s inclusiveness.” The article received play on Drudge, follow-up coverage by three networks, countless leftist blog links and
The Washington Post reports new revelations about Rep. Eric Massa and his serial “grope-age” of staff and interns. Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that
You be the judge. Remember, the evocations of the left’s beloved, if slightly late, Soviet Union, are coming from a liberal columnist at the Washington Post: They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police
The first foreboding came during President Obama’s inaugural address when he announced to the Muslim world, “…we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect…we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your
In this morning’s Washington Post, ombudsman Andrew Alexander made the argument that “Allegations of spitting and slurs at Capitol protest merit more reporting.” This is zombie-mediaese for “we have to keep discrediting critics of this administration at all costs!” An
Andrew Alexander’s column today concerning the Washington Post’s reporting on the alleged “spitting and slurs” episode on March 20 offers a partially accurate thesis based on unsubstantiated details. In short, it doesn’t work. Here’s Alexander’s thesis: The Post was remiss
Today, in his guise as the Washington Post‘s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander posted a discussion about the recent misreporting by the Old Media about the various “incidents” that supposedly occurred between the admittedly raucous tea party protestors and members of Congress
