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Common Dreams reports
Facing a presidential administration committed to waging war on Science, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) this week launched a website to help scientists blow the whistle on government interference in their work.
[...] The website encourages scientists employed by state and federal agencies to share "memos, emails, directives, or any other documents;" to send "datasets or other information that has been altered or removed from public view;" and adds: "You can also describe anything that has been communicated orally or even rumors that you have heard, and we will investigate."
The UCS urges potential whistleblowers to use encrypted communications, anonymous email, and the postal service to send materials, and encourages following the Electronic Frontier Foundation's advice for protecting privacy.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @11:43PM
For-profit businesses do NOT have a right to the public airways.
In the past, that privilege was -EARNED- via a commitment to operate "in the public interest".
It's been decades since I have seen that commitment from for-profit broadcasters or from "public" broadcasters.
I haven't done TeeVee for 8 years and have never thought that cable was worth the price they were asking for it.
As such, I don't consume Free Speech TV, which I am given to believe is the rare example which DOES live up to that old standard.
I do consume Pacific Radio which I know lives up to the standard.
There's an open invitation to Reactionaries/Neoliberals to be guests.
They know that they won't get away with the nonsense they do on Lamestream Media so, of course, as a rule they don't participate.
Thom Hartmann sometimes gets a brave soul to appear.
As you might expect from one of the smartest guys on radio/TV, he shreds their obsolete/dumb notions easily.
Surprisingly, he occasionally agrees with a point made by one of the representatives of the Bourgeoisie.
THAT is the kind of thing that -used- to happen in media (e.g. William Buckley and Gore Vidal).
I don't think quality of US journalism is any business of the governments
I view your model as a path to Fascism.
I experience it daily when my "public" broadcasting Smooth Jazz station puts on their top of the hour "news" from the (Reactionary) Associated Press.
If I'm quick, I can change the station before I'm exposed to too much unchallenged Fascist propaganda.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday February 20 2017, @03:58PM
For-profit businesses do NOT have a right to the public airways. In the past, that privilege was -EARNED- via a commitment to operate "in the public interest".
The First Amendment doesn't make exceptions for privileges or the public interest.
I don't think quality of US journalism is any business of the governments
I view your model as a path to Fascism.
And I have the opposite viewpoint. Fairness Doctrine is just another means of government control of private business and thus, another pathway to fascism.