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No Print Reporters for Ashcroft, Please

By AAN Staff
august 29, 2003  04:19 pm
No Print Reporters for Ashcroft, Please
Attorney General John Ashcroft declared he would only talk to TV reporters at a recent Philadelphia news conference. Ashcroft's minions escorted a stunned Howard Altman, editor in chief of Philadelphia City Paper, off the premises when he protested the ban on print reporters at the Patriot Act "spin-tour" event at National Constitution Hall. "I was not just steamed, I was flabbergasted. Surely, these people understand irony?" Altman writes.
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