There must have been a strange and rare alignment of stars on Jan. 18, because on that day, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State […]
Tag: freedom of the press
Claiming ‘computer crime’ shouldn’t give police freedom to raid newspapers
by Bruce D. Brown and Gabe Rottman Last month, police officers in Marion, Kan., crashed into the newsroom of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper, and the home of […]
Raid on Kansas newspaper was possibly illegal
It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors. Yet […]
98-year-old Kansas newswoman died in the line of duty after police raid
by Melinda Henneberger Joan Meyer, 98-year-old enemy of the people, died in the line of duty on Saturday. A newswoman since 1953 and co-owner of the local paper in her […]
