Did Small Kansas Newspaper Save American Journalism?!?

The reality . . . 

Global coverage and a payout worth MILLIONS might make authorities second guess targeting small time organizations or even smallish social media stars . . . 

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"They intentionally wanted to harass us for reporting the news, and you're not supposed to do that in a democracy," the editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, said Tuesday. He added he hoped the payment was large enough to discourage similar actions against other news organizations in the future.

The raid prompted five federal lawsuits against the county, the city of Marion and local officials. Meyer's 98-year-old mother Joan, the paper's co-owner, died of a heart attack the next day, something he blames on the stress of the raid. Meyer had been "stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief," the newspaper said at the time.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas county apologizes over raid on a small-town newspaper, agrees to pay over $3 million