My Boss Is in the News Again
But this time it's a David Carr piece in the Times recounting how Village Voice Media's Mike Lacey and partner Jim Larkin are taking on the crooked Phoenix sheriff who had them arrested for, as Carr puts it, "committing journalism."
Reporters around the world work under state-imposed limits on information, and there are even places where police show up in the dead of night and spirit them away to jail for having the temerity to commit journalism. It is a grim tableau repeated too often all over the world: it happens in Iran, it happens in China, it happens in Zimbabwe. And last fall, it happened in Phoenix.
The staggering drama—go read the whole piece—makes me wish just a little that Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall was a mercenary backwater jackass, which he is not. Course, there's always Terry Ashe.
