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...some of the rules and conventions of the Net. Though the context of most bulletin- board exchanges is closer to that of a cocktail party than it is to a press conference, prudent journalists must assume that their E-mail postings carry the same legal risks as print or broadcast information. But the law in cyberspace is still being written. In most ways, however, reporters are finding online reporting not all that different from the old-fashioned kind. Many are even heartened by the belief that the growing glut of information in the digital age will make their...
...earth didn't move on Jan. 1, 1954, when NBC aired the tournament of Roses Parade from Pasadena, California -- the first national, commercially sponsored TV program broadcast in living color. In fact, most of the viewers in the 21 cities that carried the show could only imagine the colors, since virtually all TV sets then were still black-and-white. But it was a beginning. Within 20 years, not only did nearly every American home have a television set, but most of the sets were in color. Families were eating their dinner on trays in front of the TV rather...
...good for everyone. What Joe wants -- and what his client wants -- is for the promotion to go well, so that a year from now, everyone who's watching this broadcast today will have a high opinion of the safety and stability of Simoleons. Right...
...disco beat Seventies and now even the Eighties chirp in with a chorus of "Me, me, me!" My Lord, what a ruckus. All this Retro can give a girl a headache. But before you get nostalgic about the future, remember that every morning you have the potential to broadcast something. No matter which decade you pilfer, you are announcing "I am of the now." You are playing a cosmic game of Whack-a-Mole...
...citizens. Adarand's lawyers want federal actions subjected to the same strict scrutiny applied to states. That argument lost twice in the lower courts. In the Supreme Court, however, all bets are off. The last time it approved a race-based special preference, in a 1990 case on broadcast licenses, the ruling came down as a 5-to-4 majority cobbled together by the tireless liberal William Brennan. Four of the winning five have since retired; all four dissenters remain. Among the Justices who have joined the court since then, Clarence Thomas is on record as opposing affirmative action...