Laws often require public announcements to be published in newspapers and online so that citizens are aware of public matters. Sometimes, though, officials revoke contracts in an effort to punish newspapers for aggressive coverage of local politics.
DELHI, N.Y. — Two of the most powerful women in the village of Delhi in central New York sat face to face in a brick building on Main Street for what would become a fight over the First Amendment.
Sometimes, though, public officials revoke the contracts in an effort to punish their hometown newspapers for aggressive coverage of local politics. Many politicians, including former President Donald Trump, have sought to delegitimize the mainstream media. Others, like former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and former Rep. Devin Nunes of California, have filed libel lawsuits that courts have dismissed. In some cases — like the New Hampshire journalist whose home was vandalized after an exposé about a local businessman — the threats have spilled into the physical realm.
The county’s commissioners ended the Tribune’s contract for public notices and awarded it to a smaller competitor. One commissioner said during a public meeting that he did not want to support the Tribune because of its “witch hunt” against the public health director. Last summer, the town’s school district canceled the Journal’s public-notice contract after several years of gripes about its coverage, including its articles about the district’s poor graduation rate. The public notices now appear in a newspaper 30 miles outside Ellenville.
A lawyer for the Gazette’s owner, the Gannett newspaper chain, said in comments to The Charlotte Observer that such a move would be unconstitutional. The county hasn’t acted on its plan to cancel the contract. A county spokesperson declined to comment for this article. “I totally dispute that they were shoved into a corner,” Molé, the chair of the county’s board of supervisors, said in an interview.
Molé said she viewed some of The Reporter’s coverage as unfair and had simply asked Shepard to cover the county’s hearings impartially.
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