Why Reno’s Free Speech Champions Don’t Have Your Back Read Part I, Part II and Part III. Good news was received last week. Patraw’s suit against the University was thrown out of court. The summary judgment is here. The judge agreed that Patraw’s allegations of what constitutes defamation – the same ploy she used against Jerz – [...]
May 10, 2009
Why Reno’s Free Speech Champions Don’t Have Your Back Read Part I and Part II. The public response to Ryan Jerz’s situation, despite it being well known and well documented in the Reno area, was little to none. Some posted comments of support on his blog at the time. But nobody – journalist, blogger or any [...]
May 9, 2009
Why Reno’s Free Speech Champions Don’t Have Your Back Read Part I here. What happens when a victim/villain case isn’t black and white? What happens when the purported ‘victim’ is in fact the villain cloaked in victim’s clothing? These are questions Reno blogger Ryan Jerz* has had to consider. When the aggressor isn’t the obvious bully at first [...]
May 8, 2009
Why Reno’s Free Speech Champions Don’t Have Your Back If Kitty Genovese’s name rings a bell, that bell should have a somber tone. Here’s why: it is commonly told that in 1964 Genovese was sexually assaulted and murdered in front of a number of bystanders, all of whom did nothing to stop the [...]
January 4, 2009
If blogs are good for one thing, it’s for stirring up a good shit storm. That’s been the case since blogs have been around. Daniel Solove’s book, “The Future of Reputation,” wonderfully details the more noted online controversies in the history of the Internet. And in Reno, ever since I began reading the blogs here approximately [...]
May 11, 2009
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