The University of Maryland -- my alma mater, for full disclosure -- has made national headlines this week with a pirate-themed porn flick originally scheduled for a full-length screening last…
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April 7th, 2009 12:04 PM | Ken Shepherd
April 6th, 2009 10:48 AM | Seton Motley
As has been mentioned here before, the Media Research Center is heading up the Free Speech Alliance (FSA). Made up thus far of sixty-five organizations, the FSA is dedicated to protecting the…
March 18th, 2009 6:43 PM | Seton Motley
Amongst the Censors In today's Huffington Post is Joseph A. Palermo's "Cheney, Rove, and Fleischer and the Importance of Net Neutrality." Net neutrality, you see, is yet another way the…
March 18th, 2009 4:05 PM | Jeff Poor
You often hear scientists who promote the theory of man-made global warming allege they are victims of censorship. But when it is the other way around – that scientists who dispute that claim are…
March 16th, 2009 3:40 PM | Tim Graham
It’s amazing that the news media’s guardians of taste will find every jaw-dropping bucket full of sexual and violent TV as much less offensive and in need of censorship than someone who would have…
Air America Begins Syndication Division With ... Newsweek, Whose Current Cover Story Bashes Limbaugh
March 11th, 2009 11:10 AM | Seton Motley
"Journalistic" Cheap Shot at the Competition
UPDATE: Below the fold.
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Couldn't they have at least waited a week to make this announcement?…
March 4th, 2009 12:15 PM | NB Staff
Media Research Center President and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell today called on all of President Barack Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) nominees to pledge to preserve…
March 3rd, 2009 2:04 PM | Tim Graham
The religion site Beliefnet – now owned by Fox Entertainment Group – has a variety of bloggers, including a few conservatives. Rod Dreher drew some network attention last year for attacking Sarah…
February 27th, 2009 7:49 PM | Seton Motley
*/ Law may allow preemptive, premature rescission of broadcast licenses
By Any Other Name Still StingsYesterday by a whopping 87-11 vote, the Senate added as a rider to the passed DC…
February 24th, 2009 10:03 AM | Jack Coleman
Top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh has gotten some unexpected help in his campaign against the so-called Fairness Doctrine that would censor conservative talk radio -- liberal radio host Ed Schultz,…
February 20th, 2009 10:38 AM | Noel Sheppard
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh published an open letter to Barack Obama Friday imploring the new president to prevent his Party from destroying free speech in America by censoring…
February 20th, 2009 9:30 AM | Jeff Poor
Although a spokesman for President Barack Obama said the administration wouldn’t pursue the revival of the Fairness Doctrine, Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, S.C., wants Senate Democrats to go on the…
February 19th, 2009 2:14 PM | NB Staff
President Barack Obama's recent statement about his opposition to resurrecting the so-called Fairness Doctrine is a good first step, but shouldn't be the only step his administration takes to…
February 17th, 2009 2:10 AM | Kerry Picket
If Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is not trying to investigate conservatives, he is trying to squelch their voices. Waxman has jumped into the so-called Fairness Doctrine discussion as of late. …
February 15th, 2009 6:37 PM | P.J. Gladnick
Hey, relax everybody! The Fairness Doctrine won't be coming back. And if you think it will be returning then you are just some paranoid conspiracy nut. Such was the assurance of Huffington Post…
February 13th, 2009 1:40 PM | Seton Motley
Bear and Imbalanced
The Censors are now coming in waves. Late last week it was Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and this week Sen. Tom Harkin and then former President Bill Clinton.
And today on CNN…
February 13th, 2009 11:50 AM | Seton Motley
Free Speech and Free Markets? Nah.For the third time in eight days, a prominent liberal has called for a return of the Censorship Doctrine, otherwise mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine. This time…
February 13th, 2009 12:58 AM | Stephen Gutowski
In yet another example of flag spamming and poor corporate over sight Facebook decided this week to remove an ad from the conservative group Americans for Prosperity. The group was advertising a…
February 11th, 2009 11:53 AM | Seton Motley
The Senator Of Course Gets to Keep His MicrophoneIt seems you can't swing a dead cat in the United States Senate without hitting another proponent of a reinstatement of the Censorship Doctrine.
In…
February 8th, 2009 12:39 PM | Jack Coleman
Salon.com blogger and author Glenn Greenwald is unlikely to become a fan of former Vice President Dick Cheney, safe to say.But Greenwald's loathing for Cheney occasionally gets the better of him,…
February 8th, 2009 6:28 AM | NB Staff
“Did Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) really believe she could get away with calling for conservative talk radio censorship without revealing her husband's past ties to its troubled liberal counterpart…
January 27th, 2009 2:31 PM | Brent Bozell
Authors often try to release their books at an absolutely perfect moment for stoking sales. Exhibit A is PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, who scheduled her liberal "era of Obama" thrill-fest about hot-shot…
January 24th, 2009 6:55 AM | Tim Graham
The Drudge Report blared the New York Post report by Charles Hurt that President Obama told the Republicans in Congress that they should go along and get along, and stop listening to Rush Limbaugh…
January 16th, 2009 11:17 AM | Kerry Picket
When the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Eric Holder, the media ignored his personal ideological activism. NewBusters Tim Graham recently wrote about how differently the media treated…
January 14th, 2009 11:23 AM | Noel Sheppard
Salon's Camille Paglia believes that of all the print and television journalists that have ever interviewed her, CBS's Katie Couric was "definitively the stupidest."
According to Paglia, "…