Discussion: Ferguson Charging A Whopping $135 An Hour For Michael Brown Files

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They gotta have a different source of ‘revenue’ these days.

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This town still hasn’t learned…

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They aren’t even trying to hide how awful they are. They know it and do not care. Only unholy lawsuits will unseat these wretched throwbacks.

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“It billed The Associated Press $135 an hour — for nearly a day’s work — merely to retrieve a handful of email accounts since the shooting.”

Right. And the funnest part? The AP and other “news” organizations will use a law that’s all about “sunshine in government” and given “the people” access to public documents to demand they get these copies, will pay the exorbitant fees without question (thereby encouraging the practice) and will then take these public documents they obtain, ostensibly “for the good of the public,” and keep them religiously secret, releasing only portions of them, selected quotes, carefully chosen sensational nuggets and snippets that support a manufactured narrative. They won’t just stick them all on the intertubez. Instead, they will treat them as proprietary. If there’s no undercurrent of hypocrisy involved there, then I’m a Smurf.

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“… the search could be more complicated and require technicians to examine tape backups.” In other words, Ferguson officials scrubbed their official email accounts and now they’re trying to hide that fact…

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Isn’t it strange how, after having searched for the information once, it still costs the same amount or even more to search for it for another news organization.

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What do you want to bet those tapes are either completely lost, or “an intern” decided to store them next to the city’s magnet archive.

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When did Missouri become a third-world shithole? This sounds more like what I’d expect from authorities in a Central American country. Who is in charge of firing every one of these corrupt bastards?

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