NYTimes: The Revealing Case of a Kansas Judge and a Search Warrant

NYTimes: The Revealing Case of a Kansas Judge and a Search Warrant by Gregory P. Magarian (“A government raid on a newspaper’s office and its publisher’s home, with police seizing reporters’ computers and phones, sounds like a lurid tale from Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This may have been an extreme case, but the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker documents dozens of government (as well as private) offenses against American journalists every year — not just searches and seizures but also arrests, physical assaults by the police, prior restraints, intimidation and improper denials of access to locations and information. All of this can add up to big legal fees for newspapers struggling to survive.”)