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Press leaks nothing new

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. ...

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By DebGeisler | Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:48am

...was much more droll the way I *first* read it.

Heh

By adamg | Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:57am

Press leaks nothing new but keeps repeating the story anyway.

Mmmmmmm....

By DebGeisler | Sat, 11/07/2009 - 12:20pm

....that looks tasty.

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