Here are several story headlines and snippets from today's New York Times. Headlines are links to the full story.
Following on recent hearing about the Hilary film and connection between speech/spending rights of corporate entities, two stories that point to other dimensions of the social control of expression.
Following on recent hearing about the Hilary film and connection between speech/spending rights of corporate entities, two stories that point to other dimensions of the social control of expression.
US
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: September 19, 2009
The Supreme Court is being asked to rule that a category of expression deserves no First Amendment protection.
U.S. / Politics
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: September 19, 2009
A federal appeals court ruled that groups have a right to raise and spend freely to influence elections so long as they do not coordinate their activities with a candidate or party.
And then we intersect the regulation of expression with surveillance. Especially interesting here is question of whether editing surreptitious video/audio in order to make a good story violates norms of journalism or "social truth telling."
By SCOTT SHANE
James E. O’Keefe III, the provocateur whose hidden camera galvanized Congress this week against Acorn, expresses surprise at the outlandishness he can get away with in his video stings.
Later in the course we'll give far less attention than it deserves to the question of the social control of organizations. A few file snippets under that category:
The New York Times surveyed violations of the Clean Water Act in every state.
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and LOUISE STORY
Published: September 18, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve and the Treasury are preparing broad new rules that would force banks to rein in practices that made multimillionaires out of many financial executives during the housing bubble, officials said.
And, finally, something we might glibly refer to as the social control of everything...
Technology / Internet
By SAUL HANSELL
Published: September 19, 2009
The proposal would expand and formalize rules meant to keep Internet providers from discriminating against certain content flowing over their networks.
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