Press leaks nothing new
By adamg - 11/7/09 - 11:25 am
J.L. Bell takes a look at press leaks in pre-Revolutionary Boston:
... The legal challenge to writs of assistance came in the midst of a feud between two Customs officials in Boston, Collector Benjamin Barons and Surveyor Charles Paxton. Both men slipped documents embarrassing to the other side into sympathetic newspapers. ...




Comments
Your headline...
By DebGeisler - 11/7/09 - 11:48 am
...was much more droll the way I *first* read it.
Heh
By adamg - 11/7/09 - 11:57 am
Press leaks nothing new but keeps repeating the story anyway.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
By eeka - 11/7/09 - 12:02 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foodbymark/4010052794/
Mmmmmmm....
By DebGeisler - 11/7/09 - 1:20 pm
....that looks tasty.