AAN News
Dallas Observer Faces Libel Suit for Satirical News Articlenew
Earlier this month, a Texas appeals court
declined to dismiss a case in which the
Dallas Observer and reporter
Rose Farley were sued for libel
by local officials who were offended by a
"news story" penned by Ms. Farley. The
article wasn't labeled as satire,
so
Denton County Judge Darlene Whitten
and District Attorney Bruce Isaacks
apparently are concerned that readers
may have believed Ms. Farley's satirical
tale, which has the pair jailing a first
grader for a book report on Maurice
Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are."
New York Times |
05-19-2002 1:25 pm |
Industry News
Are Kids Who Bust Their Parents Really Heroes?new
After a teenager in Covington, Wash,. turned his father in for
growing marijuana, local TV news reporters and daily newspapers
fell all over themselves calling him a hero. Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger, asks,"Was I the only
pot-smoking parent who was horrified?" Savage savages the "sanctimonious piety" of TV news anchors who praised the stalwart young man. Savage gets both sides of the story. The busted dad has health problems, claims he was growing a small amount of cannabis for medicinal use, and the state legalized medical use of marijuana in 1998. Savage is the only journalist in the area who even bothered to ask. He blames the DARE program for scaring kids. "The DARE kids who turn their parents into the police--some have
been as young as 10--expect their parents to get a lecture from a
friendly DARE officer about the dangers of marijuana, just like they
did at school." Problem is, what the parents get is arrested, which sometimes tears a family apart.
AAN Proposes Creating Foundation
Diversity will be focus
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-17-2002 9:20 am |
Association News
Huge Increase in Academy for Alternative Journalism Applications
AAN CAN drives the surge
(FULL STORY)
Matt Pulle |
05-16-2002 3:22 pm |
Association News
Tenants Locked Out in Housing Redevelopmentnew
Mara Shalhoup in Creative Loafing Atlanta looks at how one of the country's most lauded housing agencies rebuilt the homes of the poor to better serve the middle class. She talks to former tenants of public housing who are now shut out of the "mixed" development. "It was all right for me to raise my kids over there in Carver Homes
when it was a hellhole," one former resident says. "Now that they've remodeled and did
everything, we ain't good enough to come back." That's OK to the Atlanta Housing Authority. "Anybody who finds it difficult to get in," AHA spokesman Rick White tells Shalhoup., "we probably don't want
to have as a tenant anyway."
AAN Joins Australian High Court Case
Internet publication again the issue
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-15-2002 12:07 pm |
Association News
Theft from a Salesmannew
Last year, 231
traveling jewelry
salesmen were
robbed in the U.S.
of goods worth
upward of $30
million. Just since
the start of 2000, 17
San Francisco
salespeople have
been relieved of
more than $6 million, often during what truly are
daring daylight robberies. Most of the Bay Area crimes, law enforcement
authorities say, have been committed by organized
bands of jewelry robbers based in Los Angeles
and composed primarily of illegal aliens from
Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. The FBI has
dubbed the gangs "South American Theft
Groups," or SATGs. But just because the feds have
created an acronym, SF Weekly's Peter Byrne
discovered, doesn't mean they know how to deal
with the problem.
Richard Hart Is New Independent Weekly Editor
Richard Hart will jump from the Raleigh News & Observer to become editor of Independent Weekly, Publisher Sioux Watson says. He replaces David Madison, who was named editor in October 2001. Madison has decided to return to Montana to rejoin his wife, Katie.
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-14-2002 1:14 pm |
Industry News
Vanessa Leggett, Dan Savage to Speak at Convention
To replace Bergman and Feldman
(FULL STORY)
AAN Staff |
05-13-2002 5:29 pm |
Association News
Frisco Approves Clear Channel Distribution Dealnew
"San Francisco supervisors bowed to the City Attorney's Office once again and approved another really bad contract," Tim Redmond writes in this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian, introducing a story by Tali Woodward. The 20-year contract is with media giant Clear Channel Communications, which owns 1,200 radio stations across the country and assorted other media and advertising properties. It allows the company to erect modular news racks, called pedmounts, and sell advertising on the backs and sides. The deal gives the company "control over the distribution of newspapers in the city for the next 20 years," Woodward writes. "Even some of the supervisors who voted for the deal expressed reservations and said they were acting under legal pressure."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
05-10-2002 4:15 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation
