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Press leaks nothing new

By adamg on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:25am

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 on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 10:48am.

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

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

Press leaks nothing new but keeps repeating the story anyway.

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By eeka on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 11:02am.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/foodbymark/4010052794/

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

....that looks tasty.

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