Paper apologizes for gun records request

[dixiehack]

The Romenesko comments are sickening. Power-mad sheriff leads mob to intimidate newspaper, and a bunch of ivory-tower namby-pambies blame the victim. No wonder I've started to hate my fellow journalists.

Not everybody can be as brave as this guy, but don't tell me a real newspaper can't make a difference in a corrupt, violence-prone backwater.

http://www.kentucky.com/2008/11/22/600788/letcher-journalist-was-watchdog.html

 

[Ace]

Be sure to check out the previous letter written two days prior, stating that they had a right to seek the records but had decided not to pursue it in court.

Boing Boing has the best comment on it: "In the publisher's defense, that apology was written at gunpoint."

And the response: "But now we'll never know whose gun it was."

The Romenesko comments are sickening. Power-mad sheriff leads mob to intimidate newspaper, and a bunch of ivory-tower namby-pambies blame the victim. No wonder I've started to hate my fellow journalists.

Worked with the publisher way back when - in a sports department. He's one of the good guys. Feel terrible for him being in this situation.

Being threatened and intimidated is part of the job. Sorry.

 

[Tarheel316]

Be sure to check out the previous letter written two days prior, stating that they had a right to seek the records but had decided not to pursue it in court.

Boing Boing has the best comment on it: "In the publisher's defense, that apology was written at gunpoint."

And the response: "But now we'll never know whose gun it was."

The Romenesko comments are sickening. Power-mad sheriff leads mob to intimidate newspaper, and a bunch of ivory-tower namby-pambies blame the victim. No wonder I've started to hate my fellow journalists.

Worked with the publisher way back when - in a sports department. He's one of the good guys. Feel terrible for him being in this situation.

Being threatened and intimidated is part of the job. Sorry.

This is awful. To think that the publisher wouldn't back up his staff. He ought to be ashamed of himself. What a coward.

 

[JayFarrar]

In more news: The editor resigned after seven years on the job. Staying to help do layout until May. His wife is a teacher, and her job will be over then.
The plan is to leave North Carolina but stay in the newspaper business.

http://jimromenesko.com/2013/02/26/editor-who-made-request-resigns/

 

[Captain Obvious]

Be sure to check out the previous letter written two days prior, stating that they had a right to seek the records but had decided not to pursue it in court.

Boing Boing has the best comment on it: "In the publisher's defense, that apology was written at gunpoint."

And the response: "But now we'll never know whose gun it was."

The Romenesko comments are sickening. Power-mad sheriff leads mob to intimidate newspaper, and a bunch of ivory-tower namby-pambies blame the victim. No wonder I've started to hate my fellow journalists.

Worked with the publisher way back when - in a sports department. He's one of the good guys. Feel terrible for him being in this situation.

Being threatened and intimidated is part of the job. Sorry.

This is awful. To think that the publisher wouldn't back up his staff. He ought to be ashamed of himself. What a coward.

How often do editors have to apologize to advertisers?

 

[Tarheel316]

Be sure to check out the previous letter written two days prior, stating that they had a right to seek the records but had decided not to pursue it in court.

Boing Boing has the best comment on it: "In the publisher's defense, that apology was written at gunpoint."

And the response: "But now we'll never know whose gun it was."

The Romenesko comments are sickening. Power-mad sheriff leads mob to intimidate newspaper, and a bunch of ivory-tower namby-pambies blame the victim. No wonder I've started to hate my fellow journalists.

Worked with the publisher way back when - in a sports department. He's one of the good guys. Feel terrible for him being in this situation.

Being threatened and intimidated is part of the job. Sorry.

This is awful. To think that the publisher wouldn't back up his staff. He ought to be ashamed of himself. What a coward.

How often do editors have to apologize to advertisers?

That's a good point. And from what I've heard, it happens more than one might think.

 

[geddymurphy]

Be sure to check out the previous letter written two days prior, stating that they had a right to seek the records but had decided not to pursue it in court.

Boing Boing has the best comment on it: "In the publisher's defense, that apology was written at gunpoint."

And the response: "But now we'll never know whose gun it was."

The Romenesko comments are sickening. Power-mad sheriff leads mob to intimidate newspaper, and a bunch of ivory-tower namby-pambies blame the victim. No wonder I've started to hate my fellow journalists.

Worked with the publisher way back when - in a sports department. He's one of the good guys. Feel terrible for him being in this situation.

Being threatened and intimidated is part of the job. Sorry.

This is awful. To think that the publisher wouldn't back up his staff. He ought to be ashamed of himself. What a coward.

He's trying to save his staff. You guys have no idea what you're dealing with in that county.

Easy to sit back and judge. A little tougher to actually walk in someone's shoes.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

It's the business they chose. Aren't newspapers supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, or is it the other way around? There can be no excuses for the institutional cowardice on display here. If there have been real threats, well, that's what the FBI is for.

 

[HejiraHenry]

It's the business they chose. Aren't newspapers supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, or is it the other way around? There can be no excuses for the institutional cowardice on display here. If there have been real threats, well, that's what the FBI is for.

How, exactly, did legal conceal-carry permit holders become "comfortable" that need to be "afflicted" by having their names published?

 

[Tarheel316]

Be sure to check out the previous letter written two days prior, stating that they had a right to seek the records but had decided not to pursue it in court.

Boing Boing has the best comment on it: "In the publisher's defense, that apology was written at gunpoint."

And the response: "But now we'll never know whose gun it was."

The Romenesko comments are sickening. Power-mad sheriff leads mob to intimidate newspaper, and a bunch of ivory-tower namby-pambies blame the victim. No wonder I've started to hate my fellow journalists.

Worked with the publisher way back when - in a sports department. He's one of the good guys. Feel terrible for him being in this situation.

Being threatened and intimidated is part of the job. Sorry.

This is awful. To think that the publisher wouldn't back up his staff. He ought to be ashamed of himself. What a coward.

He's trying to save his staff. You guys have no idea what you're dealing with in that county.

Easy to sit back and judge. A little tougher to actually walk in someone's shoes.

Save his staff by hanging the editor out to dry?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

An editor in Arkansas apologizes too.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/91084/my-learning-curve-gwen-moritz-editors-note?page=all

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Hejira, the public has the right to public records. Period, full stop. I would have no beef if someone printed that I had a driver's license. Probate court, where the real nasty shirt goes down, like divorces and inheritance fights, is all public record and newspapers use it all the time. The idea that some idiot's right to own a gun trumps every other right in the Constitution is pernicious nonsense and shows how much paranoia and cowardice drives the "gun rights" movement.