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...impressive. Before Al-Jazeera, nearly all Arab media were state-controlled. Now the city of Dubai is selling space in its “Media City” at a brisk pace. Obviously, there is more work to be done. Al-Jazeera’s staff must learn to suppress their personal opinions more effectively, even when making everyday reporting decisions about the wording of articles and headlines. Indeed, the station recently hosted a forum on media bias and has developed a training regimen for aspiring Arab reporters. Al-Jazeera can’t be faulted for not trying...
Last May a judge ruled against Pring-Wilson’s motion in which he cited mental and physical trauma as a reason to suppress statements he made the night of the stabbing...
...defense had attempted to suppress Pring-Wilson’s 911 call to the police last May, but a judge denied the motion...
...never applied for an operating license. But school founder Li Dan says he applied repeatedly. He suspects the school was shuttered because it was getting publicity. "The minds of the local Henan officials are very closed," says Wan Yanhai, a Beijing AIDS activist. "Their first impulse is to suppress information...
...tendency on the part of some Presidents to behave like monarchs, sometimes with the cooperation of Congress. The Espionage Act of 1917 prohibited "false statements" that might "impede military success." During World War II, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to use sedition charges to suppress black newspapers, claiming they undermined the war effort with reports of racial dissension and demands for civil rights. It took Chief Justice Earl Warren's Supreme Court on March 9, 1964, in The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, to finally declare unconstitutional the Sedition Act of the Adams Administration...