Chris McDaniel

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News Producer at Last Week Tonight. Previously an investigative reporter at BuzzFeed News. Winner, 2011 PAX East Super Smash Bros. (N64) Championship. Signal: csmcdaniel.89

After Carr’s threat, staffers involved in the story were summoned to meetings with lawyers hired by Audacy. The attorneys scoured employee social media posts and grilled some on whether they had any political bias, current and former staff said. The station’s news director, Jennifer Seelig, sits on the board of the Radio Television Digital News Association, which gives out a prominent First Amendment award. She told people that business considerations required the station to avoid angering the FCC, current and former staffers said. Seelig did not respond to requests for an interview.
Judge Learned Hand, revered for his eloquent and consequential defense of free speech at the height of World War I, came to fear, later in his life, that Americans had placed too much faith in lawyers and legal institutions. In 1944, at a celebration of what was then known as “I am an American Day,” which extolled American citizenship, he told an audience of more than a million people in Central Park: Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. I remembered Hand’s “The Spirit of Liberty” speech while watching some of the largest American media institutions and technology companies prostrate themselves, one after another, before Donald Trump, offering obscene sums of money to settle feeble or frivolous lawsuits that one would have expected them to contest. The First Amendment gives American publishers and platforms rights that are the envy of their counterparts around the world. That today so many of these organizations evidently lack the will or courage to exercise them is frightening and dispiriting.
Daniel Day-Lewis in the Phantom Thread, saying "kiss me my girl, before i'm sick"
Moses' methods—the methods with which he swayed politicians to his side—required secrecy. An authority gave him secrecy, for unlike the records of conventional governmental agencies, which were public, subject always to inspection, an authority's records were corporate records, as private as those of a private corporation.
A WSJ push alert that says “the freewheeling, small town lawyer who landed the biggest case in America: defending luigi Mangione”
A courtroom sketch of Rudy Giuliani pointing and looking somewhat unhinged during an outburst