Roy Moore's lawyer threatens to sue local news outlet if they don't retract allegations. Response: "AL.com hereby rejects your demand."

Courtesy of AL.Com:

After The Post published an investigative article documenting Roy Moore's pursuit of a 14-year-old girl in 1979, the Republican Senate candidate from Alabama pledged to sue the newspaper. "The Washington Post published another attack on my character and reputation because they are desperate to stop my political campaign. These attacks said I was with a minor child and are false and untrue - and for which they will be sued," Moore said a week ago during a campaign stop in Huntsville, Alabama. 

Turns out Moore was also concerned about a media outlet closer to home. Moore's camp has twice threatened the Alabama Media Group, home to AL.com, according to a letter from a lawyer for the company. "You have accused AL.com of making 'false reports and/or careless reporting' about multiple subjects related to your clients," reads the letter from John Thompson of Lightfoot Franklin White. "Your letter demands that AL.com retract and recant its prior stories and that it 'cease and desist' from any further reporting about your clients," reads the letter. 

"AL.com hereby rejects your demand," it continues. 

Michelle Holmes, vice president of content for Alabama Media Group (AMG), tells the Erik Wemple Blog that the company lacks specificity on just what stories have offended Roy Moore, Kayla Moore and their Foundation for Moral Law. "As the letter outlines, these demands appear to be a show more than they are a serious attempt to question what we believe to be fully legitimate, serious reporting," says Holmes. The letter states, "You have not explained how anything that AL.com has reported is untrue, inaccurate or erroneous, nor do you provide any support for your position."

I have said it before, but it bears repeating.

We NEED to financially support our local news outlets, and bigger operations like the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Right now they are literally our last line of defense against Donald Trump and other power mad politicians and government officials.  

The truth is dangerous to these people, and that is why access to the truth must be protected at all cost.