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Friday, October 19, 2007

Media It’s Official: Blogs Can Get You Arrested

Posted by Matt Davis on Fri, Oct 19 at 12:36 PM

A bunch of Village Voice media people have been arrested for something they published. From today’s New York Times:

Two executives from Village Voice Media — a company that owns a number of alternative weeklies including The Village Voice, The LA Weekly and The Phoenix Times — were arrested Thursday night in Phoenix on charges that a story published earlier in the day in The Phoenix New Times revealed grand jury secrets.
There’s more at the NYT, but in case you were wondering, it’s a bad thing when people are arrested for publishing factual information. Regardless of whether they were “breaking” some “law…”

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