Friday, March 23, 2007

This isn’t writing, it’s typing.: Is blogging a crime?

re: "...The editor of the St. Augustine, FL, Record seems to think so. /At least when it's done anonymously...[snip]...Following Glenn's link to Cadenhead's Workbench blog, I found this almost-unbelievable story: /Newspaper Asks Public to Identify Local Blogger /A Florida newspaper appears to have hit an all-time low in the relationship between bloggers and the media. The St. Augustine Record is asking the public to help expose the identity of a local blogger who recently started a site critical of county politicians. This evening, the paper's home page has a grainy surveillance photo of a man accompanied by this text: /Who is this man? /Believed to be connected to a politically charged but anonymously-run Web site targeting the character of members of the St. Johns County Commission. Help us determine his identity. Start by watching these four movies featuring footage from surveillance cameras. /The Record published video taken inside and outside its offices March 1 that show a man dropping something off at the front desk. There's no explanation of what he's doing, making it look like some kind of threat was delivered, but I found the details on the paper's message board. He was at the newspaper buying an ad..."...

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