The ways people communicate change over time. And our laws, including the First Amendment, adapt to those changes. But it isn’t clear that recent changes and trends are adapting to our needs for truthful and reliable information, and for outlets of dissent, reform, and renewal, within today’s electronic communications environment. When the Bill of Rights was … [Read more...] about Media laws failing challenge of online misinformation and hate
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GJR book review: Media’s sharp words leave deep cuts in society
Race-Baiter: How the media wields dangerous words to divide a nation Author: Eric Deggans Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2012 Hardcover: $28, 228 pages When conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly called him “one of the biggest race-baiters in the country,” Eric Deggans turned the epithet into the title for his new book, “Race-Baiter: How the media wields dangerous … [Read more...] about GJR book review: Media’s sharp words leave deep cuts in society