Newhouse School of Communications
Newhouse Polls Archive
- Independent web journalist and blogger Josh Wolf was imprisoned nearly 8 months in California, charged with contempt for refusing to turn over raw video. Do you believe citizen journalists have the same rights as professional journalists to protect their sources, video, etc?
Vote Now - Do you think NBC News (and other news outlets) should or should not have broadcast edited portions of Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui’s videotaped rant about the shootings?
Vote Now - A recent Indiana high school newspaper editorial called for gay tolerance. The paper’s adviser was suspended, and the local board of education gave school principals editorial control over all school publications.
Vote Now - US soldiers using Defense Department computers may no longer access You Tube, My Space and 9 other websites. The Pentagon cites security concerns and bandwidth availability for the ban.
Vote Now - Civil liberties vs. fighting terrorism: Verizon is being sued for giving private phone records to the US government. Verizon says it is fully protected by clauses in the First Amendment.
Vote Now - An Atlanta city councilman is proposing “free speech zones” for city events. The city would issue permits to speakers and put them in a designated location.
Vote Now - A newspaper reporter lost his press credentials and press box access at an NCAA baseball game. He was blogging live during the game. The NCAA says live blogging violates its policy. The newspaper says First Amendment rights were violated.
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T-shirts bearing names of U-S soldiers who have died in Iraq are now outlawed in two states. Some military families are upset the names were used. The t-shirt maker says it's his First Amendment right to sell them.
Vote NowThe newest addition to the Newhouse Communications Complex, Newhouse III, bears text from the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Where do you stand on critical free speech issues?
Some Kentucky students may now face school discipline for making online comments that constitute cyberbullying.
Vote Now- Phone giant Verizon rejected a pro-choice group's request to use a special code to text message its supporters. The wireless company later reversed its decision.
Vote Now - Parents are protesting the inclusion of two Pat Conroy novels on an assigned reading list at a West Virginia high school. The books are Prince of Tides and Beach Music. The books have been pulled until the State Board of Education rules on the matter.
Vote Now - A broadcast journalist/University of Georgia professor says major news organizations must create and enforce national standards for citizen journalists. Many free speech advocates disagree.
Vote Now - Despite death threats, a Danish newspaper has reprinted a cartoon that depicts the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb as a turban. Many Muslims see this as an insult to their prophet, but the newspaper is defending its action as free speech.
Vote Now - Minneapolis/St. Paul civil libertarians are worried that new police policy for investigating protest groups will enable police to spy on demonstrators during the 2008 GOP convention. Click here to read the policy.
Vote Now - Minneapolis/St. Paul civil libertarians are worried that new police policy for investigating protest groups will enable police to spy on demonstrators during the 2008 GOP convention.
Vote Now - Publishers, cable companies and movie producers could have been sued if an Arizona state bill had passed this week. The bill would have allowed for damage claims in lawsuits related to books, films or other materials that cause someone to commit an act of terrorism or a felony.
Vote Now - Juicy Campus is a Web site that allows and encourages college students to anonymously post uncensored gossip and rumors. Some posts include nasty comments and even racial/religious slurs.
Vote Now - The US Constitution's protection of free speech is unique in the world. Do you believe that all speech, even hate speech, should be protected under the First Amendment?
Vote Now - The web is abuzz because news service The Associated Press is asking bloggers to pay for using AP wire stories. Bloggers say that's unfair.
Vote Now - An ABC news producer was arrested during the Democratic National Convention. Watch the video here.
Vote Now - In a recent survey conducted by the First Amendment Center, 66% of those asked say the government should be able to require television broadcasters to offer an equal allotment of time to conservative and liberal broadcasters
Vote Now - A Missouri university's newspaper was banned from a career fair because it ran an article on the school's declining enrollment.
Vote Now A judge dismissed charges against a man who peacefully protested the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay at the 2008 New York State Fair.
Vote Now- President Barack Obama says he is considering whether to overturn a Pentagon policy that bans the news media from taking pictures of the flag-draped coffins of U.S. troops returning from the battlefield.
Vote Now - Virginia's governor may sign a bill into law that blocks the public from a statewide police database of Virginians permitted to carry concealed handguns.
Vote Now - Reporters who decline to reveal confidential information or sources would gain limited protection in federal court under a House bill approved in late March.
Vote Now An NC State freshman created a Facebook petition to persuade an athlete to play for his school. The NCAA ordered him to shut down the site because it violated college recruitment rules.
Vote Now- UCLA has okayed a student's right to thank Jesus Christ during her graduation speech.
Vote Now - Cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed were removed from a book about the cartoons.Yale University Press said the university feared a violent reaction.
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