A reader asks: Why isn’t the professional speech question — when may the government regulate speech by lawyers, psychiatrists, accountants, doctors, and other professionals — covered by the commercial speech doctrine? Under First Amendment law, “commercial speech” is less protected than other kinds of speech; and professional speech is commercial speech, right? Wrong; and this […]
Archive | June, 2004
More on the Pew survey:
The Pew survey mentioned below was “conducted in association with The Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists”; and the report was accompanied by a section called “Commentary: A Crisis of Confidence,” signed by Bill Kovach, chairman of the Committee, and Tom Rosenstiel and Amy Mitchell, director and associate director of […]
What journalists think:
The Pew Research Center survey of journalists (see here for Juan’s original post on the subject) asked the following questions: Q.9 Is there any daily national news organization that you think is especially liberal in its coverage of the news, or can’t you think of any? Q.10 Is there any daily national news organization that […]
Life imitates The Onion:
The Oregonian reports: A Portland lawyer says suffering by African Americans at the hands of slave owners is to blame in the death of a 2-year-old Beaverton boy. Randall Vogt is offering the untested theory, called post traumatic slave syndrome, in his defense of Isaac Cortez Bynum, who is charged with murder by abuse in […]