TBS Today, March 25
Thrilled to announce that The Scanner has won the "Truth to Power: Golden Sledgehammer" award from the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Read all about it.
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We also wrote a short story today about a serious hit-and-run collision over the weekend that sent a female driver in her 70s to the hospital.
Emilie Raguso
In other news, after checking in at court this morning on a Berkeley case heading for trial, we went to Zellerbach Hall to hear UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Condoleezza Rice talk about the importance of free speech.
Unsurprisingly, a half-dozen or so activists interrupted the talk repeatedly to protest a variety of things, but it didn't derail the program.
A woman with a Palestinian flag interrupts the event before @CondoleezzaRice even gets a word out. She was escorted out of the room. pic.twitter.com/rRtj6JO576
— The Berkeley Scanner (@BerkeleyScanner) March 25, 2024
"Free speech has to have within it the view that you're willing to listen to others as well," says @CondoleezzaRice. "No democracy can exist without freedom of speech." It all started with the abolition, she says. pic.twitter.com/AGb1GNMAPq
— The Berkeley Scanner (@BerkeleyScanner) March 25, 2024
The view that names can hurt has a chilling effect on speech, @CondoleezzaRice says: "The concept of harm associated with language and words has become a problem."
— The Berkeley Scanner (@BerkeleyScanner) March 25, 2024
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