Kansas: self-help newspaper correction gets candidate in trouble
The Lawrence Journal-World reports: A weekly newspaper in southeast Kansas says Jana Shaver, one of the moderate State Board of Education candidates who won in the Republican Party primary, illegally stuffed her political fliers in the newspaper after it left out her information in a question-and-answer segment for the candidates in the race.
The Yates Center News, in a column by owner and publisher Stewart Braden, said Shaver’s actions “were unethical as well as illegal.” Braden wrote that he reserved the right to press charges against her, but in an interview Thursday said he wouldn’t.
Shaver, of Independence, said she was “heartsick” about the whole incident, which she said started because the newspaper omitted her answers to questions that were posed to the candidates in the District 9 education board race. ...
The paper told her to distribute her fliers at businesses that sell the paper. At one business she started to put her fliers in the paper. Her flier had the same content that had been omitted from the newspaper article on the race, and a political disclaimer at the bottom saying it was paid for by Shaver’s campaign.
But Braden said such action is trespassing, copyright infringement and misrepresentation of the publication. -- Publisher blasts candidate for illegally stuffing newspapers | LJWorld.com