Subject: Report from the Reporters Committee for a Free Press: "How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know"
Greetings!
I thought our JoMC faculty members and students might like to view-orreview-this from last September. The report can be downloaded as a PDF file.
"Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know"
http://www.rcfp.org/homefrontconfidential/
CONTENTS:------------------------------------------------------------------------Foreword
A chronology of events
Sections
* Covering the war
* Access to terrorism & immigration proceedings
* The USA PATRIOT Act and beyond
* The reporter's privilege
* Freedom of Information
* The rollback in state openness
Sources & citations
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Best regards,
Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 4:36 PM

 
Subject: [jomcfac] New Kaiser Family Foundation Research Report on Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds.
Greetings!
Kaiser's new report released March 9, 2005 is available fulltext online atthis URL:
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/loader.cfmurl=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=51809
It is 145 pages packed with data and analyses of data, so if anyone wouldprefer to look at my hard copy of the report, please check with me.
BTW, this exhaustive report references Jane Brown's and Kim Childers' 1990 research study.
Best regards,
Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library
- posted by Barbara @ 4:33 PM