Six men accused of having sex in the "video-viewing" backrooms of a porn shop are the reluctant crusaders to reform sex laws in Missouri, one of only four states that still bans gay sex. Missouri would just as soon they went away. One of the accused says the prosecutors told him, "Look, if you cooperate, it will go away. ... If you don't cooperate, we're going to parade you and your family and everybody through the media and make your life a living hell." They're ready for hell, writes Bruce Rushton in the Riverfront Times.
Earlier this year a Philadelphia City Paper writer received e-mails from one "Mr. Fantastic" offering information and pictures from within one of the Army's top-secret facilities, Editor Howard Altman writes. Now Maurice Threats, 21, an Army MP, has been indicted on charges of espionage and bribery. "This case came from calls that City Paper placed to us," Martin Carlson, assistant U.S. Attorney, Middle District of Pennsylvania, tells Altman. However, federal prosecutors won't confirm that Threats and "Mr. Fantastic" are the same person. [This is an updated version of last week's story.]
"Lefty weeklies are always bitching about the mainstream press," but they should look in the mirror, Peter Byrne and Matt Palmquist write in SF Weekly. Take "Project Censored," for example, "a hallowed fixture of the alternative press." They find nine of the 10 stories listed this year as under-reported or ignored have in fact received prominent coverage by mainstream institutions like the New York Times, and that even Mother Jones, a bastion of the left, has slammed Project Censored. SF Weekly's rival, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, each year gives the Project Censored story prominent play.
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