Actually, I don’t know enough about the case to make that statement personally, though people I trust tell me that he should be freed. In any case, the latest news is that the death sentence of Abu-Jamal has been thrown out. At the very least, it looks like he won’t be killed under the cloud of uncertainty that has accompanied a seemingly over-dogged reliance on the strict letter of judicial procedure.
MJ Milloy
is providing good coverage of a recent hoo-haw in the newsrooms of Canada. It seems that the new owners of the Southam family of newspapers, the Asper family, has mandated that several editorials a week will appear in each of a dozen papers – editorials written at head office. More disturbingly, the local editors have been spiking editorials or columns that take a different position. Must we now grudgingly admit that at least Tubby Black had a marginal respect for “the newspaper” as an institution?
New at the Infinite Matrix
: an excerpt from Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. Cory and I have never met, but I’ve virtually bumped into him online through at least 3 independent channels, and we have at least one friend in common in the flesh. And of course he blogs at Boing Boing, arguably the ne plus ultra among weblogs.
Glenn Fleishman
weighs in about spam. I think I’m going to start getting a lot more aggressive about my filtering. And I have to dump what used to be my primary address, but sadly is nothing but a spam-collector now. Hmmm. Maybe I should keep it.
Santa arrested
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