Hawaii state senator “appalled” by newspaper lobbying tactics
By Jim Dooley | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – The Honolulu Star Advertiser’s bid to keep monopoly control of non-judicial foreclosure newspaper ads has failed at the Legislature and a key state senator said she was “appalled” by the newspaper’s lobbying tactics.
Dave Kennedy, marketing vice president for the Star Advertiser, told Sen. Roz Baker that a billcreating competition for the ads would cost [...]
Big Island journalist sues blogger for defamation
Big Island online journalist Tiffany Edwards Hunt has sued a Puna man for defamation, alleging that he repeatedly posted scurrilous, pornographic cartoons about her after she began researching a news story about cyberbullying.
Read More →Attacking the Fifth Estate: Bloggers legally belittled
By Jason Stverak | Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity
ALEXANDRIA – Bloggers in Oregon, watch out. That’s because this month an Oregon court ruled that bloggers do not have same protection as the “media.”
This ruling emerged when Crystal Cox, a blogger, was accused of defaming Obsidian Finance Group and its co-founder Kevin Padrick on her [...]
While ‘old media’ flounders, OK Watchdog experiences gains
By ANDREW W. GRIFFIN
Oklahoma Watchdog, editor
Posted: May 6, 2010
andrew@oklahomawatchdog.org
OKLAHOMA CITY — It was just yesterday that a major media figure told me that The Oklahoman is a mere shell of the newspaper it used to be. Not only in actual physical size but in the amount of staffers and coverage the newspaper once had. They [...]
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