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Charlottesville briefly served as the capitol of Virginia for a week in the spring of 1781. Rick Britton explains why on this installment of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Next Friday, Rick will tell the second part of the story.
| How are blogs changing the world? Book editor Tom Sumner joins Coy Barefoot on to discuss about how blogs have changed coverage of politics. He says people looking for political news may end up on a blog, and may not even know it.”The top-down model is being shifted so that people who have a genuine interest in a story can create their own little media center on their blog,” says Sumner. He says consumers have much more control over what stories they view and read, and that old media picks up on stories that are hits in the blogosphere. For instance, the controversy of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys was inflamed by bloggers like Josh Marshall and Talking Points Memo. Coy helps track Virginia politics on the blog for the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. |
In November 1997, the Reverend Jerry Falwell and publisher Larry Flynt appeared together at the University of Virginia School of Law as part of a conference organized by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. The conference examined the legal and cultural impact of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the minister sued the publisher for the unauthorized use of FalwellGuv,!v,,us name and picture in a parody of an advertisement for an alcoholic beverage. Although once bitter legal adversaries, Reverend Falwell and Mr. Flynt sat side by side as they discussed a variety of issues, including the friendship that had developed between them in the years since the CourtGuv,!v,,us decision. The discussion was moderated by noted US Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro.
Civil rights attorney Oliver Hill is well known for the role he played in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions that ended the doctrine of Guv,!E”separate but equalGuv,!Vkj and other forms of racial discrimination in the United States. One of the cases in which Hill was a key figure was NAACP v. Button. On its face, Button was a challenge to Virginia statutes defining and punishing attorney malpractice. The impact of the 1963 decision was, however, far greater. NAACP v. Button established the principle that active encouragement of public interest litigation is Guv,!E”speechGuv,!Vkj protected by the First Amendment Guv,!vDjnj a principle that was critical to civil rights litigation.
In February 2000, the Thomas Jefferson Center sponsored a conference at Howard University on the lasting impact of the decision. Prior to the conference, Center director Robert OGuv,!v,,uNeil interviewed Oliver Hill about NAACP v. Button and his involvement in the case. Hill was 93 years old at the time of the interview and his voice was sometimes weak, making it occasionally difficult to hear his comments. His mind was sharp, however, making it worth the effort of concentrating to hear his comments.
Senator John Warner, presented by the Center for Politics, talks to Larry Sabato’s Politics 101 class about American politics, America today, and America tomorrow.
In March 2007, ABC News Supreme Court Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg delivered the ninth annual lecture of the Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lectureship Series. Sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the series was created and funded by the former students of Professor Abraham to honor his outstanding career as teacher and scholar of constitutional law at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Virginia.G,V Ms. Greenburg spoke on her recently published book, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court.