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Media coalition letter regarding AP subpoena
- By: ASNE staff
- On: 05/14/2013 16:14:45
- In: Freedom of the press
ASNE was one of 52 organizations and companies that signed onto a letter that the Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The Press sent Tuesday afternoon to the Department of Justice after learning of its broad subpoena of telephone records belonging to The Associated Press. Continue reading.
ASNE was one of 52 organizations and companies that signed onto a letter that the Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The Press sent Tuesday afternoon to the Department of Justice after learning of its broad subpoena of telephone records belonging to The Associated Press. The letter was addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole and was written to "express our displeasure with how this incident was handled and demand that any similar actions in the future be handled with greater consideration of the news media's First Amendment rights."