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Kagro in the Morning


Aug 6, 2013

Everybody's talking about the purchase of The Washington Post by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Greg Dworkin's round-up included several angles on that story, 3D key printing, polling on the GA-SEN race, and latter day discoveries and/or rejections of Twitter and the power of social media by traditional media reporters. Here we go, again! More on the sale of the WaPo: the Wall Street Journal notes that it comes with an overfunded pension fund. Well! Wouldn't that make for some interesting reporting on the subject of pension theft, if their pensions were stolen? Doubling back to yesterday's "secret hold" discussion, the missing piece of the background to that: the story that explains why we needed to talk about the continuing existence of secret holds. Specifically, a hold placed by a Republican Senator on a bill that would require getting a warrant before accessing email communications. Jason Stanford's post, "Kafka in Texas," and Gavin Aronsen's MoJo piece noting certain disparities in the way local law enforcement defines "threats" posed by non-violent political speech and activism. And in the case of the latter article, trumps those threats up for cash and toys. Then, a return to Reuters' story on law enforcement's routine use and covering up of tips from the DEA's "Special Operations Division."