Madison County Record
The Madison County Record is, according to the Washington Post, "an Illinois weekly newspaper launched in September [2004] that bills itself as the county's legal journal, reports on one subject: the state courts in southern Illinois."[1] (Disambiguation: This is not to be confused with the Arkansas newspaper also called the Madison County Record.)
The Washington Post 's Birnbuam pointed to a "recent front page [that] carried an assortment of stories about lawsuits against businesses. In one, a woman sought $15,000 in damages for breaking her nose at a haunted house. In another, a woman sued a restaurant for $50,000 after she hurt her teeth on a chicken breast. ... Nowhere was it reported that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce created the Record as a weapon in its multimillion-dollar campaign against lawyers who file those kinds of suits," Birnbaum wrote.[1]
For more, see the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Tort Reform Association's (ATRA) annual list of "Judicial Hellholes," which includes Madison County, Illinois.
Contact
As of January, 2012:[2]
Madison County Record
301 N. Main Street
Edwardsville, IL 62025
Phone: 618-216-6409
"Breaking News" Line: 618-216-8688
Fax: 314-480-7029
URL: http://www.madisonrecord.com/
Email:
- Brian Timpone, Publisher | brian at madisonrecord dot com
- Ann Maher, Editor | eaknef at gmail dot com
Resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, "Advocacy Groups Blur Media Lines. Some Push Agendas By Producing Movies, Owning Newspapers," Washington Post, December 6, 2004.
- ↑ Madison County Record, Contact The Record, media website, accessed January 18, 2012
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