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A Kansas county agrees to pay out $3 million and apologize for a raid on a small-town newspaper (www.cnn.com)

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[–] Tower@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Great that they're getting restitution, but how many editorial decisions at other newsrooms were chilled in the intervening years?

[–] spider@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's hard to tell, but at larger papers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post it's probably an inside job -- i.e., they self-censor because of who owns them.

edit: That has to be one of the one of the dumbest downvotes ever.