Re: 'zines

Bill_Stewart(HOY002)1305 says:

Peter Zenger was a publisher in New York during colonial times. He was arrested for publishing Bad Things about the King, which was illegal.

Bill is normally excruciatingly accurate, but in this case he is slightly off -- he was charged with slandering the Royal Governor in his newspaper. His defense was that his statements were true -- which was not a defense under the law in question. The jury decided it was sufficient, however. The rest of what Bill said was substantially accurate. Perry