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Secrecy 101
"Universities hide information about their athletics departments behind a student-privacy law designed to keep grades private." Further, it hides athletes, who have done a number of unethical and some illegal activities. Also, coaches are using the law to hide their own bad behavior. All this information stunned the senator who created the law and he believes the "institutions are putting their own meaning into the law."
Tags: education; college; Senator James L. Buckley; NCAA; Ohio State; FOIA; Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); federal; sports; public records; censor; academics
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State Video Records Coe Minutes Before Execution
The Tennessean reveals that "state prison officials videotaped the prelude to the execution" - first in 40 years - of Robert Glen Coe, sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl. The story reports on the Tennessean's and other newspapers' efforts to obtain a non-censored copy of the videotape, and on the following release of a redacted version. "The Tennessean has returned to court and has asked the judge to order the state to release a less-censored version ... citing other documents obtained under FOI laws that reveal the identities of several state officials who appear on the tape."
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Uncovered
The Guardian publishes an annual report from the Project Censored group that lists the ten most important stories from the last year that were not covered by the media.
Tags: coverage; journalism; media attention
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Restaurant Inspections
The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle "analyzes whether the City of Cheyenne/Laramie County Health Department is meeting its legal requirement to inspect local restaurants every six months. It uses computer-assisted reporting to analyze the time between inspections as well as average scores, number of significant violations, etc. ..."
Tags: CAR Department of Agriculture open records dispute redacted information censored public records
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No title (id: 12591)
An expose of the alliance between national journalists who cover the media and entertainment industries and the most powerful figure in Hollywood, Michael Ovitz, the former talent agent who now, as second in charge at the Walt Disney Companies, oversees ABC News, as well as magazines and newspapers around the country. The investigation reveals how journalists covering Ovitz for the nation's largest organizations routinely censor and slant their coverage of Ovitz, and companies he favors to advance their own careers. (Nov./Dec. 1995)
Tags: Koch CAR What Michael Ovitz knows about managing the news Contest entry 9 pgs.
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On a Screen Near You: Cyberporn
Time Magazine reports that "It's popular, pervasive and surprisingly perverse, according to the first survey of online erotica. And there's no easy way to stamp it out." Time Magazine looks at the growing amount of pornography that can be found on the Internet. Parents, teachers and politicians are up in arms to censor this material, but little can be done without disregarding the publishers civil rights.
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No title (id: 4130)
San Francisco Bay Guardian publishes its annual list compiled by Project Censored, a national media watchdog panel, on the 10 most important under-reported news stories of the year, June 11, 1986.
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