[IP] Secret Service and the Blogger
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From: "Meeks, Brock (MSNBCi)" <Brock.Meeks@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 28, 2004 5:46:46 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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