Maine Tourism: "Trailer Park Daycare"

Boston Globe: "A coastal Maine blogger who criticized the state's tourism office has been hit with a lawsuit seeking potentially more than $1 million in damages for allegedly making false statements and posting on his website, Maine Web Report, images from proposed tourism advertisements a New York agency prepared for Maine officials."

So some blogger writes something you don't like and you slap a million dollar law suit on him. Would they have run for their lawyers if the Boston Globe had written the same thing? No way, Jose. BG has their own lawyers. On the plus side, Maine Tourism is getting some nice coverage here in the blogosphere.

Comments

[djobe]

WHOA! A STATE agency is suing an individual for writing something?

I went to public school so I might be wrong, but wasn't there something in that "constitution" about a free press?

Nevermind, that was just my right wing knee jerk kicking in. My fillings are tuned to GOP frequency and if I clench my teeth I can hear Rove rambling in my head.