This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, February 8th, 2022. Later in the program, ACLU Indiana filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Todd Rokita, claiming he violated the first amendment when he barred a journalist from covering his press conferences. More in today’s headlines. Also coming up in the next half hour, the producers of BloomingOUT tackled House Bill …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, December 30th, 2021. Over the next two weeks, we will take a look back at the stories we covered in the year 2021. In today’s episode, we will review field reports from the last year. You will hear a public opinion poll of the Astroworld tragedy, activists at two protests and an …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, February 17th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Aaron Comforty spoke with Katie Blaire, the Director of Advocacy and Public Policy at the ACLU of Indiana, to discuss anti-riot bills that were recently proposed in the Indiana State Legislature. Critics of the bills say that they aim to chill free speech …
Read More »Events leading up to and following the election of Donald Trump as president have raised questions about freedom of speech in the U.S. During the campaign, Trump famously ejected protesters from his rallies and promised to strengthen libel laws to curtail the rights of the press. In recent months, prominent white nationalists have made campus speaking tours, with supporters declaring …
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Free speech is not the norm, and even in a country that explicitly protects speech in its foundational documents, censorship can still creep into our lives in unexpected ways. On this election night, “Selling Censorship,” another episode in our series The Way of Neoliberalism, about our current cultural environment that dominates our society, politics, and our interactions with each other. …
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