Category: News and Opinion

College journalists face stigma as they prepare to cover political conventions

In late June in Chicago, after a routine hearing in a federal lawsuit against the city brought by a coalition of protest groups that want closer access to the Democratic National Convention, the plaintiffs and their attorneys gathered in the lobby of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse for a short press conference.  This happens regularly at…

News analysis: U.S. Supreme Court continues to undermine its legitimacy

In the U.S. Supreme Court term just concluded, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote landmark opinions that may further undermine the legitimacy of the court that carries his name in the history books. The decision recognizing broad immunity for former President Donald Trump shocked many legal commentators because it granted Trump such broad immunity…

Opinion: Are American journalism’s ethics really so much better than the Brits’?

The New York Times recently ran a front-page article by Justin Scheck and Jo Becker exposing questionable ethical practices by two British journalists who had been hired as the Washington Post’s new leaders. The Post, The Guardian, Vanity Fair and others news outlets carried similar exposés.  According to these articles, both men had engaged in…

BREAKING: Missouri, Gateway Pundit lose speech case in U.S. Supreme Court

Missouri and the right-wing Gateway Pundit lost their U.S. Supreme Court claims that the Biden administration had coerced social media companies to suppress their free speech by removing false and dangerous internet posts about COVID-19, vaccinations and election denial. The vote was 6-3 with three of the more moderate conservatives joining the three justices appointed…

Attorneys for Georgia poll workers seek dismissal of Gateway Pundit’s bankruptcy petition

Attorneys for the two Georgia poll workers who have sued the Gateway Pundit for defamation are asking authorities in Florida to throw out the Pundit’s recent bankruptcy filing there or to allow their case in St. Louis to proceed regardless. In a May 31 motion filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in West Palm Beach,…