Biden Admin Uses Emergency Powers for Seizure of the .com Domains of 33 Foreign News Websites
On June 22, 2021, a message appeared on the websites of a series of Iranian and regional television networks that claimed their domains had been …
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Hong Kong Police Raid Pro-Democracy Newspaper ‘Apple Daily’, Arrest Five Executives
More than 200 Hong Kong police officers on Thursday raided the newsroom of Apple Daily under a sweeping national security law, to arrest five editors and …
Belarus Authorities Used False Bomb Alert to Force Land Plane and Arrest Journalist
Authorities in Belarus scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land …
50 Armed Police Raid Rebel News Reporters Airbnb, Arrest Them for ‘Illegal Gathering’ While Reporting on Lockdown Protests
50 heavily armed police just raided the hotel where our Rebel News reporters were staying in Montreal. I told them they couldn’t come in without a …
Ninth Circuit Stays Injunction That Allowed Portland Rioters to Pose as Press
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a stay Thursday against a lower court injunction that prevented federal law enforcement from arresting …
OAN’s Chanel Rion Launches New Nat’l WH Correspondents Assoc. to “Restore Balance and Diversity of Viewpoints” in WH News Coverage
Founder Calls Existing Organization “Exclusionary” An “Old Boys’ Club” of “Press Bullies” Operating Rent Free on White House Grounds, Without Legal Standing Chanel Rion, Chief …
Report: The U.S. FDA has been Arm-Twisting Journalists into Relinquishing their Reportorial Independence
It was a faustian bargain—and it certainly made editors at National Public Radio squirm. The deal was this: NPR, along with a select group of …
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Last Speech: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio] Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and …
NY Times v. Sullivan Decision: The 1st Amendment Prohibits Damages to Public Figures for Defamation unless Resulting from “Actual Malice”
The 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan has since protected many media outlets from lawsuits in spite of their intentional ‘hit pieces.’ D.C. Circuit …
President Harry Truman Address at the Lighting of the National Community Christmas Tree on the White House Grounds
[Broadcast nationally at 5:15 p.m.] Fellow citizens everywhere: Again our thoughts and aspirations and the hopes of future years turn to a little town in …