Media, Law and Politics

Kirk Hartley

The Age of Trials on TV – “CVN’s Top 10 Most Impressive Plaintiff Verdicts of 201

Amazing changes in the litigation industry include the real arrival of television covering trials, including plenty of “mass tort” cases....

Kirk Hartley

Arbitration Confidentiality Clause Does Not Control Subsequent Proceedings in Court

An arbitration agreement may specify confidentiality, but does that term necessarily control and require sealing of subsequent...

Kirk Hartley

Whale Wars – Legal and Media Battles Between Japanese Whalers and Opponents of Whaling

Julian Ku provides interesting new and older observations and compilations on the subject he calls whale wars. The subject is back on his...

Kirk Hartley

Spinning Failure – – JP Morgan’s Cheating of Service Members

Spin and sound bites. Powerful tools when used well. Consider a recent JP Morgan example. A class action suit nailed the bank for...

Kirk Hartley

Article Summarizing the Status of Televised Proceedings in Supreme Courts Aroud the World

It ‘s Independence Day for those of us in the US. This seems a good day tor a post on transparency and televsion in Supreme Court’s...

Kirk Hartley

New Words for the Lexicon: “Agrotoxins” and “Crop Protecttion Chemicals”

Remember when the words in use were "weed killer" or "herbicide" ? A news article from Brazil makes repeated use of a loaded new term: ...

Kirk Hartley

Is BP About to Lose Credibility and Share Price By Refusing to Provide Access to More Data on the Sc

When disaster strikes, credibility is key, as explained by Levick Communications. BP survived the "perp walk" to Congress, but today’s...

Kirk Hartley

The Ongoing Media Battles Over Canadian Asbestos Fiber Sales

Today, media spin is everywhere as industries, governments, and NGO’s go back and forth on regulatory issues in a wide range of...

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