Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wants to set the record straight about his office’s request to see a high school newspaper’s article about a speech he gave before its publication:
His office did ask to see the story, Kennedy says, but…
The New York Times reports that Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy recently insisted that the student newspaper at Dalton High School in Manhattan allow his office to read an article about a speech he gave before it could be published.
Most…
CORRECTION: This item was originally posted with Frank LoMonte’s last name misspelled. It has been corrected.
Frank LoMonte, the executive director of the Student Press Law Center, has posted an editorial on the center’s blog condemning Timberland High School Winston Rogers…
The Community Section of Wednesday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch carried a short item from the Suburban Journals in which the principal of Timberland High School in Wentzville defended his decision last month to pull stories about tattoos from the student newspaper.…
Editors this morning shut down readers’ ability to comment on the story “Drugs played no role in Coleman slayings.” Before the shutdown, the story drew 1,189 comments. Many of them were inappropriate, some vulgar.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com staffers try…
A federal judge in New Jersey is considering banning a newspaper and a TV station from showing an arrested lawmaker in handcuffs because the images might prejudice his chance for a fair trial.
According to Newsday — the newspaper involved — the…
The Pentagon has lifted a nearly two-decade-old ban on photographing flag-draped caskets of fallen U.S. soldiers. Here’s the Associated Press’ account of today’s news:
Caskets of war dead
WASHINGTON (AP) - News organizations will be allowed to photograph the homecomings of America’s…
The author of the “Biographer’s Craft” writes in a column on WashingtonPost.com that spam filters have been blocking his noncontroversial online monthly newsletter because of some of the words he uses — words like “young adult” and “hot.”
The author, James McGrath Morris, suggests…
Our Metro editors did a bit of an editing dance last night with the story about the anti-porn group taking on St. Louis County libraries. The local branch of Citizens Against Pornography has a list of books it says contains sexually explicit language unsuitable…
