Twice Betrayed | San Antonio Express-News “A seven-month San Antonio Express-News investigation into the pervasive and long-standing problem of sex assaults in the military shows victims who report the incidents often are retaliated against and discharged on false claims that they have mental disorders. Offenders, meanwhile, are rarely punished, and most are […]

"KCRA obtained video of hundreds, possibly thousands of mercury-containing fluorescent bulbs and PCB containing ballasts stored outside, in the open air behind a Sacramento contractor’s facility.  State law explicitly states that all these materials must be in a container to prevent leakage and breakage, yet a former employee says the company ran out of […]

"More than 60 people who hold active Mecklenburg County (North Carolina) permits to buy handguns have been convicted of felonies, some involving guns, an Observer data analysis shows.""Five were convicted of robbery with a dangerous weapon, three of manslaughter, two of firing into occupied property and one of second-degree murder. Others were […]

An article from the CCP's Red Flag journal posted to the website of Seeking Truth argues today that there are now two types of media in China: traditional media (print and broadcast) and internet-based new media. Both, says the article, must push for social cohesion. Now, as China reaches it's "dream," is not the moment to upset the boat, […]

In a speech run on the front page of today's Democracy and Rule of Law, a journal published by the China Law Society, China's new chief of politics and law, Meng Jianzhu (孟建柱), said that media dealing with politics and law (and falling under his area of jurisdiction) must work to increase their credibility and reach even as they strictly abided by […]

Chen Liang (陈亮), a reporter for China National Radio's "Voice of China", said during an official forum on "journalistic social responsibility" on April 16 that the role of the media was not only to release information but also to "maintain correct guidance of public opinion." Guidance of public opinion is official Chinese C […]