investigative journalism
The House ‘Review’ Of U.S. Copyright Law
It’s Probably A Trap ‘Yesterday, an influential congressman announced plans for a “comprehensive review” of U.S. copyright law, potentially the first such effort in more than 35 years. And that’s got hearts palpitating across Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Capitol Hill. ‘But don’t get too excited about the possibility for reforms that would safeguard an open […]
Should We Care About Tsarnaev’s Miranda Rights?
Just imagine you were mistaken for Tsarnaev and you forgot your rights and police won’t remind you? ‘There is one specific circumstance in which it makes sense to hold off on Miranda. It’s exactly what the name of the exception suggests. The police can interrogate a suspect without offering him the benefit of Miranda if […]
Is Boston Bombing an Act of a Terrorist?
Beware of presuming and believing too fast. Wonder too why there is still no suspect Censored story from the Boston national newsfeed Local TV news story censored from national feed. ‘Before the incident, with sniffing police dogs all over, runners and spectators at the finish line were told: “Don’t worry. This is just a drill.”…’ […]
Intercontinental Journalists’ Collaboration
How 86 journalists in 46 countries can work on a single investigation ‘Over 2.5 million files analyzed by a global team of journalists reveal financial information about politicians, fundraisers. and celebrities from over 170 different countries…’ niemanlab Just another suppressed technology Hemp Brick Stronger and lighter than cement You can grow it in your own […]
The Revolutionary Journalist
How Anthony Lewis Influenced the Justices He Covered ‘…the purpose of Lewis’s piece was hardly journalistic. Instead, it was nicely summed up by the first sentence of the abstract that introduced it: “The author urges Supreme Court action as the only effective means to correct the growing evil of inequitably apportioned legislative districts.”Let me hasten […]
The First App I Created
(3-9-13) Just created my Twitter/Wolfram app here. You don’t need to be a techie and write scripts. Create yours here Obama Administration supports journalist who was arrested after recording cops Government says constitutional rights were violated Is your country one of those that ban taking photos and videos of police? We can hope now that […]
Leak to ICIJ
You don’t have to join Wikileaks to expose corruption. Be an individual netizen leaker with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ‘ICIJ accepts all information that relates to potential wrongdoing by corporate, government or public service entities in any country, anywhere in the world. We do our utmost to guarantee the confidentiality of our sources…’ […]
The ECPA Act and Your eMail Privacy
When Will Your Email Betray You? ‘…ECPA is hopelessly out of date, and fails to provide the protections we need in a modern era. Your email privacy should be simple: it should receive the same protection the Fourth Amendmentprovides for your home. ‘So why hasn’t Congress done anything to update the law? They’ve tried a […]
Sandy’s Wikipedia Page and Content Forging
Apparently, the Wikipedia scandal last September (Corruption in Wikipedia Confirmed by pochp) didn’t blow but here’s a new one ‘Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He’s also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change…’ […]
Wacky Day for Investigative Journalism
News Agency Duped by Humor Website Lesson: Don’t take local sources seriously when you don’t understand local’s humor ‘Iran’s state-run FARS News Agency just published a shocking new Gallup Poll that was actually “conducted” by the fake news titans at The Onion. This FARS post from today (datelined Tehran) is a word-for-word copy of this […]
