I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
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Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Michigan Messenger’s reporting on Barrett Moore, founder of the Sovereign Deed private security firm, is “unscrupulous and defamatory,” says the firm’s attorney in a letter sent to Michigan Messenger last Friday. The letter demanded that Michigan Messenger remove from its Web site a story headlined “Sovereign Deed CEO lied about military service, records show.” Sovereign Deed also requested withdrawal of another Messenger story published last week, “Hypocrisy and Ambition: What the Barrett Moore story says about America” by Ed Brayton.
If the Messenger did not remove the stories by 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, Sovereign Deed’s lawyers threatened “all appropriate legal proceedings,” including “likely alleging defamation, tortious interference with business relationships and prospective business relationships.”
Michigan Messenger declined to remove the stories.
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In a letter to Sovereign Deed sent Monday, a lawyer for the Washington-based Center for Independent Media (CIM), which sponsors the Messenger, stated: “We believe that our stories are factually accurate and not defamatory.”.
Sovereign Deed’s request to remove the stories was triggered by an exclusive Messenger investigative report last week that quoted U.S. Army record keepers who said they could find no records to substantiate Moore’s claim of military intelligence service and expertise in weapons of mass destruction.
“There is nothing to retract,” said Jefferson Morley, national editorial director for CIM, publisher of Michigan Messenger and news sites in Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, and Washington, D.C. “We stand by our reporting.”
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