Secret Service and the Blogger

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Meeks, Brock (MSNBCi)" <Brock.Meeks () MSNBC COM>
Date: October 28, 2004 5:46:46 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Secret Service and the Blogger

From PoynterOnline’s e-Media Tidbits daily feed:

 

From the world of personal blogging comes a word of caution about what 
you write. On her LiveJournal blog, "Anniesj" recently wrote some quite 
nasty things about President George W. Bush (since removed). Annie 
writes: "We laughed, we ranted, we all said some things. I thought it 
was a fairly harmless (and rather obvious) attempt at humor in the face 
of annoyance, and while a couple of people were offended, as is typical 
behavior from me, I saw something shiny and forgot about it, thinking 
that the whole thing was over and done and nothing else would come of 
what I said."

It wasn't over. One evening this week, a Secret Service agent showed up 
at her mother's door in South Carolina "to talk to me about what I said 
about the president, as what I said could apparently be misconstrued as 
a threat to his life." While the agent quickly determined that she was 
no threat, it clearly spooked the amateur blogger.

 

URL: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=73550

 

 

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