Two Clark County School Board trustees have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Sinclair Broadcast Group and its local affiliate KSNV-TV urging the removal of a “false and misleading political advertisement” paid for by the Clark County teachers union.

Two members of the Clark County School Board sent a cease and desist letter to Sinclair Broadcast Group and its local affiliate KSNV-TV calling for the removal of a “false and misleading political advertisement” paid for by the Clark County teachers union.

For the 82nd episode of the Journalism History podcast, host Ken Ward spoke to Stephen Bates about the creation and findings of the Hutchins Commission ahead of the 75th anniversary of the “A Free and Responsible Press” report.

The Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol moved Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, even Snapchat and Pinterest, among other social media platforms, to dump former President Donald Trump for fomenting insurrection.

A Capitol Hill lawmaker is asking the director of the FBI to investigate whether Henderson-based Parler helped extremists plan and carry out the deadly attack in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.

Henderson-based conservative social media app Parler is fighting to get back online after Amazon Web Services removed it from its platform Sunday night.

American democracy, always perhaps less sturdy than we imagined, has shown itself of late to be alarmingly fragile. Its survival depends on a number of elements currently in short supply: elected officials who abide not just by the law but by long-observed Constitutional principles and norms of behavior; a body politic animated more by the better angels of our nature than by our baser instincts or a cynical grasping after power; and, finally, on some minimum number of agreed-upon facts, and a shared sense of reality, among the citizenry.

As states certify their official election results, many questions linger about this unprecedented race for the U.S. presidency.