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38 Media L. Notes 1 (2009-2010)

handle is hein.journals/mdilwnts38 and id is 1 raw text is: Media Law Notes Volume 38, No. 1 Law and Policy Division, AEJMC Fall 2009 Head Notes Charles Davis Division Head University of Missouri DavisCN@missouri.edu A few months into the job, I can honestly say that the division head role is a comfortable one, thanks to my officers, who make life awfully easy! I can't thank them enough, nor can I but marvel at the Division's can doattitude when it comes to the administrivia required to run an AEJMC army. We're busy preparing Charles Davis for the AEJMC Mid-Winter programming meeting in Jacksonville in December (that sounds so nice), and as of this writing are still accepting panel proposals for Denver. Amy Gajda is working on a great lineup for that meeting, including plans for a pre-session legal research workshop that sounds like it's going to be highly educational. I've been assembling links to build a blog digest on media law for one of my favorite resources, alltop.com. If you haven't been to alltop, go take a look. It's like a magazine stand for blogs - you can find a collection of blogs on a wide variety of subjects, and all are on an RSS feed, so they are updated every time the blog is refreshed. We've built on under freedom of informationfor the FOI community, and I thought it would make a nice project for the Division under my helm. By the way, if you have blogs you'd like to see included in our alltop page, send them to me at daviscn@missouri.edu. Member blogs would be especially welcome - just make sure you have an RSS feed first. I'm also reviewing our membership as suggested by the AEJMC Assessment Committee to make an effort to diversify our leadership ranks in the coming years, and here is where I truly need your help. If you have a colleague, or know an associate in the Law School, or anywhere else on your campus or others, with an interest in media law and policy, please let me know. I will recruit them personally to the Division. We won't diversify if we don't try extraordinarily hard at it, folks. The effort is only beginning, but I can assure you that the Division is taking the mission seriously. And we can't do it without all of your help. Thanks again for your involvement in the life of the Division. I'm reminded daily of what a great group of colleagues I have and how much fun it is to work with you all. Are Journalists Making the Grade? Ask the Government By Clay Calvert University of Florida When you went journalism school, you expected professors to grade your writing and reporting. If you misspelled the name of someone about whom you were writing, for instance, you just might have failed that entire assignment. But once you earned that diploma, the only people who ever graded your journalism skills again - aside from a few angry readers - were your employers. Or so you thought. It turns out that the federal government has been grading reporters, with those grades possibly affecting their access to cover the war in Afghanistan. Stars and Stripes, the daily independent newspaper that dubs itself as the hometown newspaperfor America's military, revealed in August that the Pentagon hired a public relations firm to profile and grade reporters covering the intensifying fighting in Afghanistan. In an Aug. 29 story, Stars and Stripes reported that secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military (Continued on page 2)

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