(Mike’s Note: This is outside the scope of this blog but, as somebody who has been in broadcasting for more than four decades and still works in radio, I believe the passing of Paul Harvey merits a mention, even here.) (CNN) — Paul Harvey, the legendary radio host whose career sharing “the rest of the [...]
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NOTE: To Access the Written Opinion, CLICK HERE Ruling Applies 1st Amendment to Internet By Aaron C. Davis Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 28, 2009 Operators of newspaper Web sites, blogs and chat rooms that allow readers to post anonymous comments using pseudonyms do not have to readily reveal the posters’ identities in defamation [...]
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(Mike’s Note: If any of our readers attend this play, we’d love a review! It might be a good teaching opportunity.) SCOTT and his younger sister, Lyn, are a couple of years apart in age and have been hanging with different crowds, but these days they share an unwanted bond: Both are the victims of [...]
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By DONNA CASEY, SUN MEDIA The Ottawa Sun OTTAWA — Sending an anonymous nasty e-mail to your class about a schoolmate or uploading embarrassing photos of him on YouTube — it’s all in fun, right? Far from it, say experts, who add both parents and kids need to see cyberbullying as a serious and dangerous [...]
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Roger Boyes and Marcus Oscarsson Finland thinks it may have found the key to the troubled psyche of school shooters: they are bullied or ostracised youths with access to guns. The Internet, it seems, has created a kind of global village for teenagers with a grievance. After two classroom massacres in a year, Finland started [...]
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By Shari Phiel Berthoud Recorder The recent case of Berthoud High School athlete Brandyn Wahlert, who was charged with four counts of third-degree assault — a Class 1 misdemeanor, stemming from a series of alleged hazing incidents — has in many ways polarized students, parents and residents in the community. Some view the incidents as [...]
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