Ralph Ginzburg RIP
Posted by Daithí on July 7, 2006 , No comment
Obit from New York Times
Ginzburg v US (famous obscenity case, 1966)
Ginzburg v Goldwater (the less famous but most amusing case where Barry Goldwater sued for libel after Ginzburg published an article on his mental fitness to be US president, including a survey of professionals. You can’t make this up…)
Filed under : Law, Media and Society
The Incredulous Words
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The New York Times got in a wee bit of hot water recently with a story on monitoring financial transactions that has been criticised by Bush and his Snow-mobile and defended by the Times’ editor with equal passion.
A twist that caught my eye, though (via the Poynter Institute) was the librarian in a Texas university [...]
Filed under : Libraries and Information