Coming Soon: SR to Release E-mail Exchanges … (Not so fast…)

… and Prosecutor Bill Douglas dismisses controversy as “a distraction.” (90 minutes?)

Update: After reviewing the messages and our options (none good), we’ve decided not to post the messages. Here’s the situation:

Of the 50 messages, a few have explicit photos embedded in the message. We can’t publish those photos (one shows a toddler’s penis). We also have a strong ethical policy against blurring or otherwise manipulating photos.

Some of the messages are completely innocuous. The rest of the messages only refer to attachments. Those attachments are explicit, so we can’t publish them.

We’ve also gone through each message to blur e-mail addresses for privacy reasons.

So, if we don’t publish any of the explicit images, and we refuse to blur, crop or otherwise alter them, all we’re left with is a bunch of forwarded messages that say things like “take a look at this!”

We decided that did not advance the story in any significant way. Ken Sands, online publisher