France Makes Effort to Criminalize Bloggers, Internet News Sites

Warner Todd Huston
March 8th, 2007 9:35 AM
In a warning to the sanctity of free speech in a democratic nation, France is about to show us what happens when the state is allowed to legally determine who is allowed to be a "journalist", or who is a "legitimate" source of news: You get the criminalization of speech. France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that…
 

Dennis Miller Debates Patriot Act, Prods Walters to Call Pelosi 'Terri

Justin McCarthy
March 1st, 2007 4:34 PM
 

Hugh Hewitt: PBS Called Me, We Negotiated, I Declined -- Then They Lie

Tim Graham
February 14th, 2007 4:23 PM
 

PBS Producer Says He Just Couldn't Find Conservatives To Speak on Terr

Tim Graham
February 13th, 2007 5:02 PM
Several national newspapers praised the four-hour PBS Frontline series beginning Tuesday night titled "News War," on how Team Bush (and Team Nixon before that) undemocratically waged war on the press. There's not much on whether the press was undemocratically waging war on the elected president in those cases. (Who, pray tell, voted for the New York Times to run the country?)  The man setting the…
 

The Price of Publishing Leaks: SWIFT Data Flow to U.S. Must Stop by Ap

Noel Sheppard
February 6th, 2007 10:24 AM
In a huge blow to America’s ability to defend itself from future terrorist attacks both home and abroad, the European Central Bank has told SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, that it must halt the transfer of personal banking information to American authorities by April.As reported by Agence France-Presse on February 1 (h/t to Dan at Riehl World View): “The…
 

DKos’s Stark and NB’s Sheppard Debate Liberal Blog Protests of Con

Noel Sheppard
January 28th, 2007 11:59 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting for the past couple of weeks, a battle is being waged between liberal bloggers and a conservative radio station in San Francisco. Those that are unfamiliar with this issue should read articles covering both sides of the matter here and here.Two of the most outspoken voices on the Internet regarding this subject have been Mike Stark, who writes for Daily Kos and…
 

NY Times Twists Terrorist Surveillance Into 'Domestic Eavesdropping

Clay Waters
January 19th, 2007 5:20 PM
 

Networks Distort Overseas Terrorist Surveillance Into 'Domestic Spying

Brent Baker
January 17th, 2007 8:10 PM
 

Olbermann and Dean Suggest Impeaching Bush Cabinet Members

Brad Wilmouth
January 3rd, 2007 10:38 PM
On Wednesday's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and frequent guest John Dean discussed the possibility of a Democratic Congress moving to impeach members of President Bush's Cabinet as an alternative to actually impeaching the President or Vice President.
 

AP: Turning Gov't Letter Into Excuse for America Bashing

Warner Todd Huston
December 28th, 2006 10:23 PM
 

Ann Coulter Shocked By Lack of Outrage Over Sandy Berger

Noel Sheppard
December 22nd, 2006 12:03 PM
As NewsBusters has reported here and here, there has been a shockingly deafening silence from the American media concerning revelations of former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger’s actions at the National Archives in 2003. In fact, it appears that only Fox News has much interest in a story about a top-level political official stealing and destroying top secret documents from the facility…
 

Bozell Column: Are The Planes Safe

Brent Bozell
December 5th, 2006 9:31 PM
 

NYT's James Risen Cheers Rumsfeld's Exit as 'Best Thing to Happen' In

Tim Graham
November 13th, 2006 2:56 PM
 

UPI: Leahy 'Restoring' Habeas Corpus

Warner Todd Huston
November 12th, 2006 4:51 AM