Florida GOP pushes bill that would allow college students “to record classroom lectures without a professor’s consent .. to use in preparation of a civil or criminal case against a higher-education institution” miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
Fla GOP: We need to open up classrooms to public scrutiny.
Also Fla GOP: We need to stonewall legitimate requests for COVID data
This just in: The @nytimes wins its case vs the Trump campaign, which had sued over a column by Max Frankel, former exec editor of the Times.
No actual malice, among other reasons.
"News organizations function as a platform for facilitating constitutionally protected speech on issues of public concern and courts will not impose defamation liability against these entities absent a clear showing of actual malice." iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDoc…
For background on this case and two others that the Trump campaign pushed vs CNN and Washpost, here's my piece via @CJR (filed yesterday, as it happens)
"Mr. Peretti said BuzzFeed executives will undertake a review of HuffPost’s business before making any significant moves, such as cutting staff or hiring additional employees" wsj.com/articles/buzzf…
"Benefit from greater scale" is a likely sign that your media merger will go awry
Washpost tonight: “Trump’s tweet [about Pence] came at 2:24 — only 11 minutes after live TV showed Pence being hustled from the Senate floor because rioters were streaming into the building.
Does anyone else find these hearings -- particularly the reconstructions of the MAGA violence -- not just traumatizing but also, in a fill-in-the-blanks way, sort of therapeutic?
Reliving this moment has become both an ordeal and a catharsis.
New transcripts of dispatches from the police. The printed words don't convey the panic