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collaborative journalism on the U.S. Attorneys firings

2007-03-20 18:13:55.788893+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

This is citizen journalism as it was meant to be practiced: Talking Points Memo readers are collaboratively going through the 3,000 pages of documents that the Justice Department released on the firings of U.S. Attorneys, and finding dirt.

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#Comment Re: made: 2007-03-21 17:02:09.812574+00 by: Dan Lyke

Daze Reader has an entry about how at least two of the firings appeared to have stemmed from an unwillingness to pursue obscenity prosections, and links to The Salt Lake Tribune on the topic, and AZ Central on Charlton's ouster and AVN on an interesting prosecution of a porn shop for materials that another shop, under control of the bankruptcy trustees, continued to sell.