Mastodawn

myrmepropagandist Aug 15, 2023

Longtime Marion County Record journalist Joan Meyer, 98, died Saturday less than 24 hours after a police raid at her home.

Something is going down in Marion County. The police have raided the newspaper office and taken all the computers. A dedicated local journalist dies after a police raid?

That same paper's attempt to write about the DUI of a prominent restaurant owner may have caused the raid?

What is happening to our small towns?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-whole-lot-of-history-dies-with-newspaper-veteran-joan-meyer-after-police-raid/ar-AA1fgibD

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johncarneyau

@futurebird there’s some talk that the real reason behind the raid was that the MCR was investigating the Chief of Police, Gideon Cody, regarding sexual misconduct allegations.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/14/kansas-cops-raid-small-town-newspaper-in-hopes-of-finding-out-who-leaked-dui-data-to-journalists/

Kansas Cops Raid Small Town Newspaper In Extremely Questionable ‘Criminal Investigation’

The free press is supposed to be free. That’s what the First Amendment means. Journalists have a long-acknowledged, supported-by-decades-of-precedent right to publish information that may mak…

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