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...marvelous way to get their message out to a huge audience at low cost. Last week the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the world's largest Jewish human rights organization, decided that enough is enough. Citing "the rapidly expanding presence of organized hate groups on the Internet," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, sent letters to hundreds of Internet access providers, asking them to help draft a code of ethics that would squelch Websites that promote bigotry and violence...
...Cooper claims his letter is very much in keeping with the Constitution and traditional media practice. He argues that the First Amendment also protects publishers who choose not to disseminate materials they find offensive. Most mainstream newspapers and magazines, for example, won't run ads from racist or hate groups. The people who sell access to the Internet, he believes, should start behaving the same way. "In effect," says Cooper, "this is a recognition that the Internet has come of age. We're not looking for prior restraint or to keep these guys off the Internet. We're saying, Adopt...
...that it isn't like traditional media. A wide spectrum of viewpoints is tolerated and even encouraged online, especially on the freewheeling, anarchistic Usenet. The notion is that for the first time in history, anyone can express his or her views to a mass audience. As a result, Cooper's proposal is stirring up opposition from cyberspace denizens on both the left and the right...
...squad of nine correspondents, ranging in age from 18 to 28, to Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia and other global hot spots. Their stories frequently run three or four minutes--enormous by network-news standards--and have an immediacy that the young audience can relate to. Reporting from Rwanda, correspondent Anderson Cooper took viewers along on a trip through the country in which his car got stuck in the mud and ran out of gas, before reaching scenes of slaughter so grisly he at one point gagged on camera. Cooper was also in Haiti in the days before the downfall...
...qualified detective, Robert Perez, who has no corroboration from a reliable witness and no motive for the crimes claimed to have been committed. Why hasn't the fbi or the Justice Department stepped in and put a stop to this? People's civil rights are being trampled on. PAUL COOPER Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania...