Claiming a loophole in the federal shield law that protects journalists from unwarranted searches and seizures, the city of Marion’s police force — led by their chief — of five and two sheriff’s deputies grabbed computers, demanded reporters’ personal cellphones and seized gear from the home of the editor.
It was a shameless act which recalled similar collegiate newsroom roundups during the hippie-dippie days of Vietnam War protests. That’s when zealous and ambitious prosecutors sought photographs of protesters taken by student newspaper photographers and student reporters’ notes.
There’s nothing like a newsroom raid to get the journalistic juices flowing for reporters and editors across the country. Indeed, dozens of news organizations have come to support fellow folks at the family-owned Record, ready to carry on the long-standing tradition of a free and independent press. It is not clear what the Marion cops thought they were doing, although the intrusion could have had something to do with a probe of the police chief’s hinky background. The stress of the raid apparently contributed to the death of the owner’s 98-year-old mother, who said of the bust: “These are Hitler tactics, and something has to be done.”
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