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EU continues to seek action after ICIJ 'Secrecy for Sale' investigation

By Bill Buzenberg

Europe continues to seek action after ICIJ tax havens investigation; Center environment team to be honored at White House association dinner

Commentary — The assault on liberty (continued)

By Charles Lewis

WASHINGTON, September 17, 2003 — President George W. Bush used the second anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks not only to pr

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"… s Attorney General arrogantly kept America, including the Congress and the news media, in the dark about their plans for more unbridled power in the name of nat …"

Stealth PACs revealed

By The Center for Public Integrity

February 9, 2000 — The 2000 election cycle promised to be a high-stakes and free-spending election by anyone's measure. The balance of power

Excerpts from this story referencing "news media":

"… ffice nor a phone number, just a post office box in northern Virginia. The news media and McCain’s campaign scrambled to identify the group’s directors and …"

"… the Pew Charitable Trusts.The Center received more than 150 calls from the news media during the campaign on the issue of Section 527 soft money groups. The Cen …"

"… . The group formed as a Section 527 organization in July 1999. CBM said in news media reports that it would spend up to $40 million in the 2000 election cycle, …"

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Congress sifts competing measures on campaign finance reform

By Marianne Holt

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2000 — On June 8, the Senate passed an amendment by Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., that would force currently invisible

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"… slation. On the day the House voted down Doggetts amendment, Bush told the news media in Connecticut that, “the idea of letting everybody who was a contributo …"

Here are the groups targeted by 'no-soft-money' pledge in New York race

By Marianne Holt and Kathryn Wallace

(Washington, October 3) New Yorks U.S. Senate candidates, Republican Representative Rick Lazio of Long Island and his Democratic opponent, f

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"… g drive to bankroll these efforts.Jeff Larson, who runs the site, told the news media at the onset of his project that his intent was to subject Clinton to “u …"

Outside groups push pedal to the metal In Michigan race

By Kathryn Wallace

WASHINGTON, September 21, 2000 — The Sierra Club is distributing campaign items attacking Senator Spencer Abraham in the form of a "campaign

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"… ists he is interested in legislation and not electioneering. And while the news media and Abraham have contended that FAIR is somehow in cahoots with the Democr …"

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Obama top recipient of AIG's hefty campaign contributions

By Kat Aaron

The American International Group, more commonly known as AIG, has become the poster child for the financial bailout. The company has receive

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"… anks, as payment on the credit default swaps contracts.Politicians and the news media have expressed outrage about the money the company has given to foreign ba …"

Commentary: Freedom of information under attack

By Charles Lewis

Asking the tough questions required of "watchdog journalism" is especially difficult in a national crisis atmosphere of fear, paranoia and p

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"… months forbade him to testify before Congress or talk extensively with the news media. More broadly, within six months of the September 11 attacks, in no fewer …"

"… regular courts, and it is unclear what limitations might be placed on the news media in covering them. The USA Patriot Act, passed just six weeks after the ter …"

Commentary: Clamping down on freedom of the press

The clamp-down on the freedom of the press by the executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government, begun in the wake of September 11

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"… at Watergate and the Nixonian animosity and adversarial culture toward the news media unavoidably had to have on three rising Republicans: George W. Bush, Donal …"

Will truth again be first casualty?

By Jacqueline Sharkey

"Well, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said he had imposed no press restrictions. In fact, he said he hadn't really even considered the issue of

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"… his time against terrorism, it is useful to recall the restrictions on the news media imposed during the last occasions the United States was on war footing. Af …"

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