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Robert Miraldi

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Author, journalism professor, syndicated freedom of speech columnist for the USA TODAY Network. Yankee fanatic.

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Rob Miraldi is an award-winning author, columnist and journalist. He has a PhD in American studies and was a popular professor of journalism at the State University of New York for 35 years. Two of Miraldi’s biographies of famous American journalists were as the best books in journalism and mass media in the United States. In 1991 Miraldi was a Fulbright scholar lecturing on American journalism in the Netherlands. For two decades, he has been writing about free speech and free press. He current…

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump must assure us they'd protect the First Amendment. Will they?

Joe Biden and Donald Trump must assure us they'd protect the First Amendment. Will they?

Opinion: How would Joe Biden and Donald Trump answer questions about the First Amendment and the free press?

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Trump's mongering of violence isn't protected free speech. There's a critical difference.

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By Robert Miraldi
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4-minute read Rob Miraldi Special to the USA TODAY Network The shards of insurrection are sharp in the American soil. In fact, they date back to our revolt from the British. But today they are rooted in someone’s provoking words, someone’s incitement — implicit or explicit — meant to stir the pot to boiling, foment violence and intimidate public officials. “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing,” Thomas Jefferson infamously wrote in 1787. But I’m wondering what he would say today.
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Santa, can you help Congress protect our kids from social media this holiday?

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By Robert Miraldi
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4-minute read Rob Miraldi Special to the USA TODAY Network Dear Santa: I realize it’s a busy time for you, what with supervising elves and finishing toys. But I hope you can look at my letter because — and I don’t exaggerate — it concerns 46 million young people. And they all spend nearly five hours a day spinning through social media sites from Facebook to Instagram to TikTok.
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Social media is a brutal new weapon in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Should we allow it? Original

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By Robert Miraldi
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The Nir Oz kibbutz in Israel is about a mile from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The 400 Jews who live there have often been the target of cross-border gunshots, but on Oct. 23, in a surprise attack, Hamas terrorists besieged the commune, killing about 100 and taking 50 hostages back across the border.
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