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Slip Opinions: How the Blogosphere is Transforming Legal Scholarship
Recently, Washington University Law School, located in Saint Louis, Missouri, launched a new blogsite, entitled Slip Opinions. Their “debut” edition features a series of essays first presented at Harvard Law’s Bloggership Symposium. Contributors include Ellen Podgor, James Lindgren, Kate Litvak, Lawrence B. Solum, Douglas Berman, Paul Butler, and Eugene Volokh. It’s worth checking out, particularly considering recent events in Central Louisiana in which court cases are analyzed and dissected in the blogosphere before they ever make it in front of a judge.
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News Busters: Bush’s Omission of Katrina/Gulf Coast Treated as “Scandalous”
This is from News Busters, a website that claims it exposes and combats “liberal” media bias: A night after CNN anchors fretted about how Katrina and the recovering Gulf region were “thunderously missing” from President Bush’s State of the Union address, CBS and NBC picked up the cause. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric regretted on Wednesday night how “there was not one mention of Katrina, though the suffering and hardship continue.” Noting that “there are still 13,000 people living in FEMA trailers,” Couric asserted: “Some who lost everything are asking, ‘What about us?’” Reporter Armen Keteyian, a veteran of…
