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Whose First Amendment?

With the rise of so-called reality television in recent years (proving that truth is tawdrier than fiction, too), it might well be asked what all of the TV writers are up to these days. Some, it would seem, have lent their fertile imaginations to a TV-industry lobbying and litigation campaign that, like the medium itself, […]

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End of the Open Road?

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me … –Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road With apologies to Walt Whitman, whose “barbaric yawp” anticipated Internet chat groups and the World Wide Web by well over a century, the information superhighway may turn out to be nothing like […]

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