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21. Court TV Library
Thus, Court tv and other media were able to C. THE CONTINUING debate Responsiblecamera coverage is enhance understanding of the federal courts and ensure
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22. Court TV Library
Court tv Library the adjudication of the plaintiff's claim would require the courtsto monitor considered only whether the use of Speech or debate material in
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In what was viewed as a victory for former Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that a trial court should reconsider whether 6 of 17 corruption charges against Rostenkowski should be thrown out. As a result of the ruling, it appears that at least four charges will be dismissed.

23. Untitled
After all, the courts already allow prerecorded testimony many questions and problemsas the debate already on the table, following the example of Court tv?
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The Media and the Courtroom?
A Look at the Increasing Debate The Issues around the Media and the Courts
The key issue in the debate is the apparent clash within the Constitution between the First Amendment's right to a free press, and the Sixth Amendment's right to a fair trial in a speedy and public manner, by an impartial jury. To some it has been a debate between institutions, with different goals, while others believe that their goals (of justice) are essentially the same, but merely take on a different form from each other. But others believe that it is simply a debate between proper values and professionalism as institutions. In order to start our discussion it is appropriate to determine first if the amendments based on the founder's intentions actually do clash, and if so, whether or not one is more important than the other. The courts especially want fair trials and the media wants their right to a free and open press of the courts. But do the legal professionals do all that they can in order to preserve fair trials? And have those in the media abided by ethics in journalism when covering the courts and been responsible in doing so? Since these are both very important issues to the debate, the idea behind who each of these actors, as institutions, are supposed to serve first needs to be addressed. Based on the strict standards of both the law, the high court, and modern American Bar Association's professional code of ethics, that the justice system's primary function is not to serve the random interests of the public. Instead, prosecutors, defenders, and judges are to insure the best possible conditions for opposing sides to search out the truth in a dignified adversarial process. Their function is to insure the integrity of the institution, the Constitution, and to provide interpretation and enforcement of the law.

24. Public Access TV
set aside access channels, but federal courts struck this control, compared to truepublicaccess tv in which There is no political debate on 11, no controversy
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Whatever Happened to Public-Access Television? In the early days of cable television, Americans were told that certain channels would be open to all citizens. And in many towns, there are such channels. So why don’t we have them here? by Joe Jackson Tuesday night, 7:30 p.m. You are channel surfing and stop at WCOX, Channel 11, where a New York strip steak sizzles temptingly on a grill. It is, of course, the long-running Grate Steak program. The camera pulls back and Irvine B. Hill, vice president of public affairs for Cox Communications, waxes poetic on meat: "Look at that steak! I bet it tastes wonderful." A waitress enthuses: "It sure does." Now switch to the same time on about 2,600 other channels nationwide. If you surfed to various public-access stations over the past decade, you might have found these:
  • In Louisville, Kentucky, two men wore headsets and danced a nervous shimmy while singing Christian hymns karaoke-style. Afterwards, a Louisville investment broker hosted "Dollars and Sense," but did not sing. In Fairfax, "The LaRouche Connection," a talk show produced by supporters of jailed extremist Lyndon LaRouche, covered topics like food irradiation, the drug trade, and a claim that former president George Bush supported eugenics. Afterwards, the half-hour "Single Parent Show" covered issues and news affecting single-parent families.

25. Minnesota Public Radio -- The Surveillance Society | The Price Of Privacy
In the debate over privacy rights, one thing is clear Bank Records Cable tv TestingSourcePrivacy Journal. as long as technology advances, the courts will have
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There's no mention of a right to privacy in the U.S. or Minnesota Constitutions. But courts do acknowledge a person has a limited right to be left alone and free from unreasonable governmental searches under the Fourth Amendment. The courts have to strike a delicate balance between the competing forces of an individual's right to privacy and, the need for a safe society. In the debate over privacy rights, one thing is clear: there's a benefit to be gained from losing privacy. IF YOU DRIVE ON metro-area highways, be warned: you're on camera and watched by the Department of Transportation, the State Patrol and several news organizations. More than 250 cameras perched high atop utility poles provide continuous live images covering 80 percent of Minneapolis-St Paul highways.

26. Russia Through The Small Screen
opera has played out in Russia's courts and media regulatory mechanisms to reinvestin the tv sector. In his attempts to depoliticise the debate, the president
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Russia through the small screen
For more than a year a judicial and financial soap opera has played out in Russia's courts and media over NTV, Russia's only privately owned national television network. Its former head is fighting extradition from Spain and its journalists fear that President Putin intends to stifle freedom of speech. The attention that the battle for NTV and its parent company has attracted is symptomatic of the importance television plays in Russian political life and the passions it arouses in viewers. by our special correspondents SYLVIE BRAIBANT and CAROLE SIGMAN*
In the autumn of 1993 Russia underwent two revolutions, personified by two men and two images. The first revolution was a political one, symbolised by Boris Yeltsin and the battle for the White House in Moscow. The second revolution came a few weeks later when the Russian TV landscape exploded and Yevgeny Kiselyov started appearing, icon-like, on his Sunday television shows (1). Always carefully dressed in a white or pastel blue suit, Kiselyov is still there today gazing out from behind his distinctive eyeglasses. His commanding silhouette, enhanced by various subtle lighting effects, stands out elegantly against the metallic backdrop, fashioned after the universal American studio model.

27. DigitalConsumer.org News: August, 2002
holders, and should be unceremoniously tossed out by the courts. which was unanimous,tentatively says that digital tv transmissions will The debate in Utah
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Aug 31, 2002 Chain sues to edit sex, violence from films "More than a dozen of Hollywood's top directors have been sued by a tiny Colorado video chain that rents films with the sex, violence and blue language edited out, Variety reports." Aug 30, 2002 Killing the College Radio Star The CARP ruling "would force low-budget operations to add expensive hardware and software to comply with the order. The stations that can afford the upgrades face the task of training their unpaid volunteers to monitor and run the systems." Aug 30, 2002 Video Store Seeks OK to Censor "A video store chain that edits profanity, violence and sex from films asked a judge Thursday to rule the practice is legal, despite protests by such directors as Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg." Aug 30, 2002

28. Satya Aug. 02: Interview With Ronit Avni
to produce video as evidence before courts or tribunals. The footage was shown onnational tv, Joey published an really helped to shift the debate from whether
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Video Activism: Those With Eyes Shall See
The Satya Interview with Ronit Avni Forgotten People , by Mental Disability Rights International Ronit Avni is Program Associate of Witness, a human rights organization that helps activists document the abuses they witness with video cameras. Catherine Clyne recently spoke with her about the group and some of its projects.
Tell us about Witness.
Aside from production, what are other ways Witness assists activists?
When you say that you teach people how to use video as evidence in a court, what do you mean?
Do you approach professional filmmakers to get involved with projects?
The second was on sweatshop labor in the U.S. territory of Saipan, called Behind the Labels. That was a collaboration between the Global Survival Network, which had hidden camera footage of garment workers on Saipan, and filmmaker Tia Lessin. That was also commissioned by Oxygen. These were exceptional because the funding was available, and we wanted to see whether this would be a model to perpetuate or not.
One thing that our readers will be interested in hearing about is how you and other members of the staff, and other partner members, deal with looking at such atrocities every day?

29. BW Online | April 8, 2002 | Don't Buy Hollywood's Broadband Script
Just look at cable tv and videos. 70s and '80s before being forced by the courts andCongress long Hollywood should get to drive the digitalcopyright debate.
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Don't Buy Hollywood's Broadband Script Heather Green covers the Internet and e-commerce for BusinessWeek Printer-Friendly Version E-Mail This Story Perspective :e.biz Archive Find More Stories Like This Saddam's Surprisingly Friendly Skies "A Pretty Good Understanding" of SARS Knocking on Baghdad's Door The Fruit of Victory: A Lingering Anxiety ... More Headlines Suddenly, consumers will understand the benefit of spending $50 a month for broadband, and we'll all crowd around our computer screens to watch movies, instead of on a TV. From a measly 11 million homes using high-speed access, things will explode. BEHIND THE MYTH. The problem is, this scenario doesn't add up. For some reason, the myth continues that broadband finally makes it fun to watch movies on your PC. As anyone with a T1 line can tell you, that's just not true. Only Hollywood seems to believe the ultimate use for a computer is to watch videos. Consumers aren't waiting for more digital-entertainment choices to sign up for broadband. They're waiting for better response from the phone and cable companies when they call to get high-speed service installed and for lower pricing. According to Forrester Research, 72% of existing Net users are willing to pony up only $25 a month for broadband, half of the average cost now.

30. Media Ethics: The TV Spectacle Of The Hill-Thomas Hearings
and acceptance, laws which are applied and courts which are the dissolution of lifeinto tv. Likening the A subject of debate within postmodern cultural theory
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Ch. III Watching Television
Television and the Image
"The detached observer is as much entangled as the active participant."
[Theodor Adorno]
"...[W]hat we are dealing with here are in the very widest sense communities of interpretation, many of them at odds with one another..."
[Edward W. Said]
The television camera has transformed our involvement with justice, as we sit in judgment while images on the screen draw us into action. The television image captivates the viewer commanding in-depth participation in every aspect of experience. The political context of the drama enfolds, and the viewer is given the task of untangling the powerful and complex web of race, gender and politics. The scenario of the Hill-Thomas hearings played itself out in the fast-paced medium of television, underlying the Thomas confirmation proceedings. The conflict between Hill and Thomas had all the features of a dream sequence: events out of order, improbable characters, intrigue and resolution brought to the public live through the mediator of television as a popular culture phenomenon.
The country was given a sense of television's power to create intense involvement in a complex process, as it presented itself as a powerful medium for molding public opinion and reviewing the unresolved issues of racial and gender justice. The separation between public and private hearings were supported by commentary, recaps, updates and summarized reports accompanied by selected footage. Were the Hill-Thomas hearings a television courtroom drama, an attempt to obscure reality, a Hollywood sitcom, a war of the genders, with a charge of sexual harassment?

31. Brechner Report Index 6
Court declines to quash WPECtv subpoena (West Palm Beach), March 1993 (173), p.3. Chiles’ shield law veto shifts debate back to courts (analysis by
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at the University of Florida Index to Volumes 10-25 (1986-2001)continued Obscenity and Pornography GENERAL Appeals court upholds child porn law (Daytona Beach), July 1989 (13:7), p. 3 Photo shop owner facing porn charges (Lake City), August-September 1989 (13:8), p. 5 Photographer pleads guilty to porn charges (Jacksonville), March 1990 (14:2), p. 3 Florida Supreme Court finds obscenity law constitutional, November 1990 (14:9), p. 3 State case denied review, July 1995 (19:7), p. 3 Sex acts during nude dance not protected (West Palm Beach), March 1997 (21:3), p. 5 Initial complaints open to public (Tallahassee), August 1998 (22:8), p. 1 Foundation holds Sunshine seminars (Tallahassee), Oct. 1998 (22:10), p. 3 Court upholds federal law against child porn (Eleventh Circuit), January 2000 (24:1), p. 3 BOOKS, MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS School board bans two classics as obscene: ACLU vows to sue, June 1986 (10:5), p. 3

32. Vigilant.tv : 2002-12
Government supporters ransack Venezuelan tv stations 1024 AM Australian Senate iscontinuing to debate changes to federal judge has ruled that courts have the
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Australian govt to seize assets of non-criminals

08:57 AM +1000, Dec 31 2002 Excerpt: The Australian Government has proudly unveiled a new law extending its powers to confiscate the assets of innocent people. Mere accusation of a crime - with no conviction required - will be...
Briton and American jailed for Indonesian medical help

08:54 PM +1000, Dec 30 2002 Excerpt: The Indonesian government has sentenced two Western academics to short prison sentences for violating their visas by possessing maps , taking photographs and providing medical help in South Aceh....
ANU warns of lack of security at universities

09:42 AM +1000, Dec 30 2002 Excerpt: Australian National University's director of terrorism studies, Clive Williams, has warned that universities are not taking enough steps towards preventing terrorists from learning dangerous...
Govt, groups push for black box car crash recorders

09:15 AM +1000, Dec 30 2002 Excerpt: US trade groups and Government departments are pushing for "black box" crash data recorders to be installed in all new cars. Manufacturers are reluctant to develop a standard interface for the...

33. CRE News Release: The Media After Lawrence - 21 Oct 00
and being severely fined by the courts, and even that you – journalists, editors,radio and tv news reporters issues in public, to stimulate debate, and to
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Saturday 21 October 2000
The media after Lawrence: fresh start or the same old story
Gurbux Singh's speech to the NUJ Conference, held at the Tabernacle, Powis Square, Notting Hill, London. Let me tell you about journalists. All journalists smoke. All journalists drink heavily. All journalists wear raincoats. All journalists have that dishevelled, just woken up look. All journalists have scruffy shoes. All journalists swear profusely. All journalists go to the pub every lunchtime and every evening, and sometimes even in the morning. All journalists eat badly, do little exercise, and have an unhealthy lifestyle. You know that what I have just said is nonsense. It is stereotyping of the worst kind and for that I apologise. I have lumped you all into one single, not particularly flattering identity. But, I hope it gives you some idea of my response when people assume that because I am Asian, I am bound to like curry, or that I pray to Mecca five times a day, or that I have an arranged marriage, or that I own a corner shop. Do not assume that just because someone is black he or she automatically likes reggae music, is a rastafarian and is into a life of crime and drug dealing. It is nonsense. It is the sort of stereotyping that simply reinforces prejudice.

34. MediaChannel | Edition Archive
faces challenges in Congress and the courts, many voices warn Reform Bill • AnalysisWhy The Newspapertv Cross-Ownership so as to enrich democratic debate.
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EDITION ARCHIVE HOME SITE MAP MAY 29 The Usual Sources, The Usual News
New Studies: On U.S. network TV news the sources are overwhelmingly white, male, and Republican, women's role in the newsroom is shrinking and TV news has returned to pre-September 11 fluff
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Philippine newspapers and magazines are collapsing and broadcasters are firing staff

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A corporate vision for Russia's media: Top U.S. and Russian media executives present Bush and Putin with their model for "free," commercial media in Russia, backed by a promise of $50 million in U.S. investment
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Open-access culture-jamming: an activist's guide to converting billboards into chalkboards (From The Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia) Campaign: International journalists challenge the forces of privatization, media deregulation and corporate globalization to

35. C-SPAN Networks In Jeopardy?
Communications director for WBBMtv, said that and Candid camera instead of the debate. .
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36. MAIN
The debate pitted Ian McBride, Managing Editor Factual Programmes Carlton tv succeededin the Court of Appeal this liberal construction by the courts is shown
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Introduction This quarter the Bulletin has a strong legal flavour. Particularly important is the House of Lords decision in Reynolds -v- Times Newspapers
LEGAL Reynolds Reversed The House of Lords in Reynolds -v- Times Newspapers Background The former Taoiseach sued the Sunday Times in respect of an article relating to the political crisis in Ireland in 1994, which culminated in the resignation of Reynolds and the collapse of the coalition government. At the initial hearing the jury decided that the article was defamatory of Mr. Reynolds but he was awarded only 1p damages. At the trial the Sunday Times argued that the article was protected by the defence of qualified privilege which it argued should in effect apply automatically to reporting of political discussion. The judge rejected this. Both Reynolds and the Sunday Times appealed. The decision of the Court of Appeal extended and redefined the defence of qualified privilege. At the heart of the defence of qualified privilege has always been the test that material is only protected if there was a legal, moral or social duty to publish and the material was published to those who had corresponding interest in receiving it. The Court extended the practical ambit of the defence by recognising that this test could be satisfied when the media inform the public on a matter of general concern, as long as the circumstances of the publication in question satisfy an additional set of requirements ("the circumstantial test").

37. The Problem
expression from the tiny people on their tv screen will what the leading voices inthis debate do NOT law which has been universally struck down in the courts.
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An Examination of
The Right To Keep and Bear Arms
by N. David King, with Jeff Forrest
THE SMELL OF RED HERRING
For years, especially in the more crowded eastern communities experiencing unacceptable rises in personal, violent crimes accompanied all too often with the abuse of a firearm a cry has gone up that something must be done to limit the access and/or availability to guns. Though often painted by the pro-gun lobby as hopelessly naive drones of THE communist conspiracy to take over this country (that's the one where there is an agent of the Kremlin skulking not just behind every bush but behind every undesirable action the country has ever taken), the truth is that many of these people were reacting normally and predictably to personal tragedy. Their lives had been negatively changed because someone with a gun killed a loved one or took their life savings or maimed them or a family member. They felt helpless in the face of a tool clearly presented to them in its primal form of an efficient killing device. It is difficult to be objective about such vague and long-ago-relevant concepts as addressed in the U.S. Constitution when your son has been killed, your husband has been turned into an ambulatory carrot, or some barely literate punk has decided that your hard earned money ought to be his for the taking because he has something you don't a

38. Velocity Press - The Gun Debate
The Gun debate they know about the use and utility of guns from the cinema andTV. just what the law says, and how it has been interpreted by the courts.
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Home Mallory and Irvine Knee Replacement Surgery American in England ... Contact The Gun Debate Is a rational discussion possible? Here's a try.
© 1999 by Tom Holzel,
Rev: 30 January, 2003 DRAFT FOR COMMENTARY
[WARNING NOTICE: This discussion is a draft strawman, written to highlight self-defense problems, to explore various potential stratagems, and to solicit rebuttals and uncover flaws. IT IS NOT INSTRUCTION, and should under no circumstances be relied upon as a suggested course of action.]
First, let us revel for a moment about the usefulness of carrying a concealed weapon. The idea is essentially that of allowing you to appear as a mild-mannered Clark Kent who can, with the flick of his wrist, turn into Supermanable to magically turn a desperate situationa physically aggressive panhandler, a purse-snatcher, a maniac driver who has forced you off the roadinto a satisfying (and very sexy) victory of good over evil. Just pull out your concealed handgun.
One could day-dream over this delicious concept in endless variation. Pick up any of the many hand gun magazine and you will see that that is exactly what many men do. The problem is that none of the above Superman scenarios are true. While pulling out a concealed weapon in any of the above situations may turn some of them around momentarily, what is also just as likely to happen is that you will get yourself killed or thrown in jail.

39. Vol25no3-page5
comfort of home, ranging from Court tv and “The The debate still rages, however,over whether video cameras and that Virginia’s appellate courts are less
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The President's Perspective
John B. Lundie,'00L University President John W. Elrod characterizes the Law School’s move to co-education as part of a program of choices made by the Law School administration in the late 1960s. At that time, the administration under the leadership of former Dean Steinheimer recognized that the legal profession had begun a fundamental change much broader than co-education. While the fact of women entering the profession in greater numbers was part of the changing legal profession, the scope of that change meant that the Law School would need to do much more than accept women. If the Law School was to continue to provide a legal education in the tradition of Washington and Lee, substantial resources would be required in order to insure that today’s Law School would have the reputation it now enjoys.
The first six women at the Law School entered a different Law School from the one that exists today. During the early 1970s, the Law School left its long-time home of Tucker Hall for the tremendously expanded premises of Lewis Hall. Along with these changes were the parallel growth in library materials, faculty hirings, and research activities that have resulted in today’s Law School. President Elrod noted that this enormous growth was smoothly accomplished in large part because the need for these changes was so clear. A unanimous consensus among students, faculty and trustees determined the direction of the Law School.

40. Corporate Media
A couple of years ago, the courts ruled that law in a word, television Bush succeededon tv not despite behavior.) following is a quote behind Colin Powell's
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Corporate media
Wheelchairs and special Ed. by Captain Nemo When F.D.R. addressed congress a few days after Pearl Harbor, none of the major news media reporters mentioned his polio, or his wheelchair. They were carefull for nearly 12 years to avoid writing or talking about it on the radio. Now, a similar phenomenon is occurring, but with a different malady. Aparrently most of the reporters for the major media outlets have been given orders not to mention that the current "commander in chief" has attention deficit disorder, or something similar. The way they have decided to handle it is to say that they were suprised that "The president" could manage to remain "focused" long enough to deliver a speech or two last month. David McCulloch, the historian, said that he found it challenging to talk to the public about Bush's speech on one occasion. He was able to put a positive slant on it by saying that; "before now, people were beginning to wonder whether Bush could focus, but he rose to the occasion." One reporter said something to the effect that "it is OK that the president doesn't read books, he is busy doing things".

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