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Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed – A multimedia report on television newsrooms’ use of material provided by PR firms on behalf of paying clients – Diane Farsetta and Daniel Price, Center for Media and Democracy, April 6, 2006.
Federal Secrecy After September 11 and the Future of the Information Society, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2006), Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society.
Press release: “Places & Spaces: Mapping Science uses maps, globes, and interactive illuminated diagrams to chart abstract concepts in and across a variety of scientific disciplines, tracking the emergence, evolution, and disappearance of topics to help identify the most promising areas of research. The exhibit is on view at The New York Public Library’s Science, …
The Public Editor – The Times’s New Blogs: More Information, Fewer Filters, by Byron Calame.
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, Special Report, March 2006 (32 oages, PDF).
Press release: “Committee Approves Bill to End Secret Contacts between Lobbyists and Executive Branch Officials” Executive Branch Reform Act of 2006 (H.R. 5112 – 28 pages, PDF) Fact Sheet: The Executive Branch Reform Act of 2005 Rep. Waxman’s Statement
“Welcome to the new home for all of the BBC’s weblogs. Although we have had blogs for a number of years, most notably our Scottish community site; Island Blogging and the excellent Ouch, this is the first attempt at bringing you a complete list, some news of new launches by journalists, DJs, and radio shows, …
Follow-up to April 7, 2006 posting, Plame Leak Controversy Focused on President With Release of New Info, see: today’s Washington Post: Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story: “As he drew back the curtain this week on the evidence against Vice President Cheney’s former top aide, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for …
“Only 14 of the full 93 pages of the National Intelligence Estimate that President Bush authorized Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, to disclose to New York Times reporter Judith Miller has actually been officially declassified, according to a posting [April 7, 2006]on the Web site of the National Security Archive …
The Employment Situation: March 2006, Report prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics released April 7, 2006.
Press release: EFF Files Evidence in Motion to Stop AT&T’s Dragnet Surveillance “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T… “The evidence that we are filing supports our claim that AT&T is diverting Internet traffic into the …
Follow-up to posting on April 7, Plame Leak Controversy Focused on President With Release of New Info, from today’s Washington Post, Testimony Adds New Element to Probe of CIA Leak: “…court papers filed late Wednesday night by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, in the perjury case of former White House official I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, …