Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and the Marion County Record newspaper office Friday, 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer, otherwise in good health for her age, collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.
While clearing up my late mother’s house, I came across some historically significant newspapers that she had stored in a cedar chest more than fifty years ago. Rather than leaving them sitting in a drawer at my place, I’m trying to think how they might be put to good use in some kind of educational program, or displayed where people could see them. The Toronto Archives were not interested, and the museum library has not yet responded to my query. Ideas are welcome!
"Trump suggested a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserves execution... And in an utterly disturbing, profanity-laced speech last week in #California, he said we should shoot robbers in the back...
If news about stuff around the world is your interest my suggestion is to get an RSS Feed Aggregator like Feedly and connect all the various news sources you enjoy and then read the content like a magazine #news#rss#feed#newspaper#media
Harrowing but incisive reality check on quality newspapers in the US, by @jeffjarvis :
“These three newspapers [New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal], which in the winners-take-most market of media today capture two thirds of subscription revenue, each have wonderful journalists doing good and important work. But they are betrayed by their institutions, which are losing trust and refuse to ask why.” https://buzzmachine.com/2024/04/26/the-times-is-broken/ #journalism#newspaper#democracy
The initial online search of a state website that the police chief cited to justify that KANSAS NEWSPAPER RAID was LEGAL, a spokesperson for the agency that maintains the site said on Monday.
Mreanwhile, video emerges of the 98-year-old owner of the newspaper ordering police out of her house (including some profanity). Remember that she died soon after, likely from stress.
How small-town intrigue between a police chief and the local #newspaper in Kansas sent a shock through American #journalism (small town intrigue-feuds between police and papers happen all the time by the way—and #reporters often get little support. That’s my experience)
The Right's #Fascistic war on the #FourthEstate is nothing new. But when cops raided a rural Kansas #Newspaper office and its editors’ homes over an investigation in progress, a dangerous precedent was set.
Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner (marionrecord.com)
Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and the Marion County Record newspaper office Friday, 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer, otherwise in good health for her age, collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.