Elon Musk has a great idea for rating the credibility of the media. But it’s not a new idea. In fact, it’s the foundation of the First Amendment. Perhaps you’ve read about his tweet (above). Journalists love to discuss this stuff. It’s what we do. Obviously he recognizes this. He …
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The Reynolds School of Journalism will host a First Amendment forum featuring Lucy Dalglish and Trevor Timm starting at 7 p.m. April 25 in the theater of the Joe Crowley Student Union on the campus of the University of Nevada in Reno. Dalglish, a media lawyer and dean of the …
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In case you’re keeping score, First Amendment and open-government advocates this week had a couple of successes, took a continuing loss and will look forward to another significant contest next week. One of the wins came in the Nevada Supreme Court, which said a district court judge was wrong to …
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By Steve Ranson Thirty years ago — Jan. 13, 1988— the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that student journalists shed some of their constitutional rights at the school door, and school administrators could remove material they deemed inappropriate — or, in many cases, embarrassing to them personally. The …
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I left Joe Crowley Theater on Tuesday evening without much encouragement that freedom of the press, as we know it, is alive or well. The occasion was a talk by RonNell Andersen Jones and David Greene, moderated by Patrick File, on threats to the First Amendment. The title of the …
Read More »By Ken Paulson You can’t take freedom of speech for granted these days. The horrific murders of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and other staff members in Paris and the threat of bombings at movie theaters for booking “The Interview” are jolting reminders that freedom of speech is often vulnerable. The two …
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