You can't quote me without permission!

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Wow ...

Fredrick County (Md) Councilman Kirby Delauter wrote on social media that he plans to sue The Frederick News-Post if his name or any reference to him appears in print without his permission.
In a Facebook status posted Saturday, Delauter said he was upset with reporter Bethany Rodgers for “an unauthorized use of my name and my reference in her article” published Jan. 3 about his and Councilman Billy Shreve's concerns over County Council parking spaces.
“So let me be clear............do not contact me and do not use my name or reference me in an unauthorized form in the future,” Delauter, R-District 5, said in a Facebook status update.
...
Terry Headlee, The News-Post's managing editor, said the newspaper typically does not seek permission or authorization to publish a person's name or reference, except in the case of children.
"Kirby Delauter can certainly decline to comment on any story," Headlee said. "But to threaten to sue a reporter for publishing his name is so ridiculously stupid that I'm speechless. It's just a pointless, misguided attempt to intimidate and bully the press and shows an astonishing lack of understanding of the role of a public servant.”

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/ne...cle_e965025f-6c48-5a02-b162-600dfd2b5495.html


Let me know how that works out for you.

 

[joe king]

For some reason the headline on this thread made me think of Dr. Strangelove.

You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I saw on one of the sites a poster suggested that next election, the paper doesn't mention him among the lists of candidates, since they are not to contact him and he hasn't given them permission to use his name.

Then see him blame the media for his electoral loss.

 

[Doc Holliday]

I saw on one of the sites a poster suggested that next election, the paper doesn't mention him among the lists of candidates, since they are not to contact him and he hasn't given them permission to use his name.

Then see him blame the media for his electoral loss.

+1

 

[MisterCreosote]

Let me know how that works out for you.

LOL: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/ne...cle_da85d6f4-fa3c-524f-bbf6-8e5ddc0d1c0a.html

Knowing Councilman Kirby Delauter as we do, we weren't surprised that he threatened The Frederick News-Post with a lawsuit because we had, he says — and we're not making this up — been putting Kirby Delauter's name in the paper without Kirby Delauter’s authorization. Attorneys would be called, Kirby Delauter said.

In fact, we spent quite some time laughing about it. Kirby Delauter, an elected official; Kirby Delauter, a public figure? Surely, Kirby Delauter can't be serious? Kirby Delauter’s making a joke, right?

Round about then, we wondered, if it’s not a joke, how should we now refer to Kirby Delauter if we can't use his name (Kirby Delauter)? Could we get away with an entire editorial of nothing but “Kirby Delauter” repeated over and over again -- Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter, Kirby Delauter? OK, imagine we agreed because of temporary madness or something funny in the water that week, how would we reference "Kirby Delauter" and do our job as journalists without running afoul of our lack of authorization?

 

[hondo]

That editorial was brilliant.

 

[fossywriter8]

LOL: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/ne...cle_da85d6f4-fa3c-524f-bbf6-8e5ddc0d1c0a.html

Surely, Kirby Delauter can't be serious?

Yes, he is, and don't call him Shirley!

 

[Doc Holliday]

You gotta love the editor going after him like that in that editorial. Too damn funny. Wish something like this would happen where I'm at so we could do the same thing.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Another commenter on the paper's site pointed out that editorial manages to top itself by having the doofus' name spelled out using the first letter of each paragraph.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Another commenter on the paper's site pointed out that editorial manages to top itself by having the doofus' name spelled out using the first letter of each paragraph.

That's downright hilarious.

 

[Bradley Guire]

Another commenter on the paper's site pointed out that editorial manages to top itself by having the doofus' name spelled out using the first letter of each paragraph.

Holeeee scheeeeeit.

 

[Steak Snabler]

In fact it does:

Knowing
In
Round
Blanks
Yet

Discernably
Edifying
Legally
And
Uh
That's
Enough
Reasonable

 

[Rosie]

I saw this yesterday and laughed myself silly. Clearly a guy who should not be in public service. I love how the paper has been having fun with this. :D

 

[expendable]

Great job by the editorial staff. I'm going to incorporate this into my classes when I get to public/elected officials.

 

[da man]

In fact it does:

Knowing
In
Round
Blanks
Yet

Discernably
Edifying
Legally
And
Uh
That's
Enough
Reasonable

It seems someone on that staff once worked at the Marietta Daily Journal.

 

[deskslave]

There are many, many small-town (and medium-town ... and big-city) papers that wouldn't have gone nearly as far in defense of what's right as this one has. I'd imagine many of us have worked for such papers. It's nice to see one with some stones.

 

[mediaguy]

Not just "can't quote me" -- can't mention my name without permission. Great stuff.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Has the douchebag responded at all? It's impossible to tell just from a Google search because there are about 1,000 links to the editorial.

 

[MNgremlin]

Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter today issued the following statement apologizing for his recent threat to sue a Frederick News-Post reporter for using his name in print without permission:

“The first amendment is alive and well in Frederick County. As a public figure working to maintain and improve the county, it can be very frustrating to feel misrepresented or misinterpreted by a local media outlet.

“Over my career I have fired off my fair share of angry e-mails, which in hindsight I wish I hadn't. I can't think of one that had a positive effect. Usually, they only served to escalate the conflict. I thought I had long ago learned the lesson of waiting 24 hours before I hit the send key, but apparently I didn't learn that lesson as well as I should have.

“Of course, as I am an elected official, the Frederick News-Post has the right to use my name in any article related to the running of the county -- that comes with the job. So yes, my statement to the Frederick News-Post regarding the use of my name was wrong and inappropriate. I'm not afraid to admit when I’m wrong.

“I got elected to serve all the citizens of northern Frederick County, Democrats as well as Republicans. I look forward to the local papers covering my effort in that regard.”

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/pu...cle_48b2a336-96b8-11e4-8c3f-63665634f9a3.html

 

[User 11148]

Not a bad apology. I've certainly read worse.