A stacked-deck legal system in Mississippi helps the rich and powerful attack journalism about official misdeeds.
The grifters haven't spent a day behind bars, but the Pulitzer-winning journalist whose investigative work uncovered the scam says she'll go to jail rather than let a former governor rummage through her publication's files.
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/anna-wolfe-pulitzer-mississippi-welfare-scandal-phil-bryant-rcna159936
I've donated to Mississippi Today, the publication under attack. You, too? https://mississippitoday.fundjournalism.org/donate/?org_id=mississippitoday&campaign=7010b000000ez8oAAA
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2024-07-03 05:49:25
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