20070412 Local Bloggers Post Generates National Firestorm

Local Blogger's Post Generates National Firestorm

April 15th, 2007

Submitted by MBA News on Thu, 2007-04-12 23:00:

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WKRN Nashville Tennessee reported Local Blogger's Post Generates National Firestorm

Coble has now decided to retain a lawyer with the counsel for the Media Bloggers' Association. They are taking on her case for free. Regardless of the outcome of the threatened lawsuit, many bloggers

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“Local Blogger’s Post Generates National Firestorm”

[April 13, 2007, 4:31 pm]

A firestorm has started in Nashville after JL Kirk Associates, a Brentwood-based employment agency, threatened to sue local blogger Katherine Coble.

Coble shared her observations about the job placement company, most of which were negative, on her blog, Just another Pretty Farce .

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A little over a month after her blog post, Coble received a certified letter on behalf of JL Kirk Associates.

The letter stated that unless Coble removes the blog postings about the agency on or before April 13, 2007, Friday, JL Kirk Associates intends to sue for damages due to "false and defamatory statements."

Coble posted about the lawsuit threat on her blog. Her readers became outraged and began posting about the threat on their own sites.

Bloggers said they thought Coble was being bullied.

The world according to Tiff Sniff blogger said, "Writing about your personal experience and opinion in a public forum can't possibly translate into tortuous interference… that's a hell of a lot to prove."

Soon after, popular Web site[s] like [http://www.instapundit.com/] began posting in support of the threatened blogger, causing the story to be seen by thousands.

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