MEDIA & ETHICS
VIOLATIONS
Yashar Ali’s Defamation Case Tossed Out as He Belatedly Discovers the First Amendment Applies to Others, Too
As judgments and debts pile up around Ali, his bigotry and hate have led to a karma snapback, prompting a California court to chuck his frivolous lawsuit.
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VIOLATIONS
VIOLATIONS
Yashar Ali’s Defamation Case Tossed Out as He Belatedly Discovers the First Amendment Applies to Others, Too
As judgments and debts pile up around Ali, his bigotry and hate have led to a karma snapback, prompting a California court to chuck his frivolous lawsuit.
VIOLATIONS
In Touch Editor James Heidenry Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Distance Himself from His Own Sleazy Publication
Heidenry and his lawyer appear confused about the First Amendment and various other facts.
VIOLATIONS
The Daily Beast: A Cautionary Tale of Writers Gone Wild for Cash
If you perchance ever took a wrong turn in the dark alleys of the internet, you may have stumbled upon a self-proclaimed “high-end tabloid,” The Daily Beast.
TRENDS
TRENDS
Trust in Media Plummets, Prompting Journalism “Bloodbath”
Media companies are reeling in the wake of plummeting public trust and vanishing profits, prompting what has been called a journalism bloodbath.
TRENDS
Will Diversity Initiatives in Media Bring Real Change?
How America sees itself against the background of its tumultuous history is arguably one of the most urgent issues in media studies today.
TRENDS
Addicted to Distraction: How Reality TV Has Us Hooked
Author Marshall McLuhan published his book about the human condition in 1968. Half a century later, it is abundantly clear that much of what passes for “entertainment” is inflammatory and morally decrepit reality TV.
MAGAZINE
THE POSSE OF LUNATICS
Recently, a handful of not so self-respecting journalists ran with apocryphal tales on the Church of Scientology. Even the most cursory comparison from one bit of reportage to the next reveals an unmistakable similarity one to the next. For each drew their sources from the same small cadre of ex-Scientologists. Those individuals are the subject of this
publication.
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