Sep 24
2013
Worse than 1984
“Orwell could never have imagined anything as complete as this, this concept of scooping up everything all the time,” Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, tells a New York audience.
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Sep 24
2013
“Orwell could never have imagined anything as complete as this, this concept of scooping up everything all the time,” Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, tells a New York audience.
Sep 17
2013
Public universities direct a larger share of their financial aid to students from well-off families than to those hailing from low-income backgrounds. A report from ProPublica.
Jul 30
2013
Dan Gillmor writes for the Guardian and quotes one national security reporter: “We’re in a moment when journalism is being criminalized.”
Jul 25
2013
The Erie County Water Authority is spending $122,600 a year in salaries for three messengers, two of who are politically wired. Messengers in this day and age? A report from Scott Brown of WGRZ.
Jul 24
2013
The House of Representatives narrowly defeated a measure Wednesday that would have reined in the federal government’s power to indiscriminately collect telephone records of American citizens. A report from the Guardian, including the roll call vote.
Jul 19
2013
Astute analysis by Buffalo News columnist Donn Esmonde on Mayor Byron Brown: “He has conditioned people not to expect much. So he can take credit for anything good that happens – even when, like the waterfront or downtown revival, it doesn’t have much to do with him – while avoiding blame for problems.”
Jul 16
2013
Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian, citing the latest report by The Washington Post on the federal government’s efforts to establish a security state, explains the danger this poses to civil liberties in the United States and beyond.
Jul 11
2013
David Cay Johnston, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of best selling books on tax and economic policy, is no fan of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Start-Up NY program. Or the governor, for that matter. “His new law undermines market economics and promotes corporate socialism, in which profits are privatized and costs are socialized,” Johnston writes in a piece for City Newspaper in Rochester. “Cuomo’s plan redistributes wealth upwards, showing that he is no Democrat in the traditional sense that Democrats care about working people,” Johnston wrote. “Rather, Cuomo is part of the growing cadre of politicians whose success depends on[...]