Utah Bloggers Being Threatened by Local Newspaper

Clff Lyon, of the One Utah blog, is being threatened with libel by the Deseret News. Here is a letter they sent to Charley Foster of The State of the Beehive regarding the posting of an item by Cliff on its blog:

I just recieved the following email from the account of Chuck Gates at the Deseret News.

Dear Mr. Foster,

It has been brought to my attention that a Jan. 27 posting
on your blog by Cliff Lyon comments on the “firing” of Brady
Snyder by the Deseret Morning News. This is false. Brady
resigned from the newspaper, effective Jan. 28, to take a
job with the Salt Lake Rescue Mission and to devote more
time to his church. We were sorry to see him go.

We expect an immediate correction to this potentially
libelous information.

Angelyn N. Hutchinson
City Editor

This has created a flurry of response from bloggers all over – liberal AND conservative alike!
On blogging we all agree that (in Ken Bingham‘s words):

We bloggers must stand together to protect our rights. Otherwise bloggers will be silenced and intimidated by powerfull interests that do not like what we say.

Bloggers unite!

Links to posts on this issue:
Obligatory Anecdotes
One Utah
The State of the Beehive

2 responses to “Utah Bloggers Being Threatened by Local Newspaper

  1. Cliff Lyon and the DMN
    This is pretty scarry that we agree on something! (c8
    On this issue we all have a common interest. I will also put a
    link to your site on mine.

  2. Re: Cliff Lyon and the DMN
    I know, who would figure???
    I like it when common ground brings people of different philosophies together.

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