COP PREZ URGES JOURNAL NEWS BOYCOTT, PRAISES RC TIMES AS COUNTY’S “PREMIER NEWS PUBLICATION”

Dear RC Times Editor, I needed to take the time to write you and thank you for your continued support regarding the irresponsible journalism and extremely poor decision the Journal News made in making public the interactive map of pistol permits holders in Rockland County.  I am a retired NYPD officer and currently the president […]

JOURNAL NEWS BACKS DOWN — GUN-MAP IS REMOVED

JOURNAL NEWS BACKS DOWN — GUN-MAP IS REMOVED

Updated at 6:30, 7:15 & 11:30 p.m. REPORT BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Journal News publisher Janet Hasson announced Friday evening that her newspaper is removing the infamous interactive gun-map from its website, in order to follow “the spirit” of New York’s new gun control law, which restricts the public availability of gun license data. Friday afternoon […]

SOURCES: GANNETT CEO HIRES ARMED GUARDS DUE TO JOURNAL NEWS FALLOUT

SOURCES: GANNETT CEO HIRES ARMED GUARDS DUE TO JOURNAL NEWS FALLOUT

    The Rockland County Times has been told by Washington D.C.-area sources that Gannett CEO Gracia Martore has hired armed security for her home in Great Falls, Virginia due to the negative fallout following publication of an interactive gun-map by Gannett-owned newspaper the Journal News. The Rockland County Times has not received photographic evidence […]

ROCKLAND CLERK TO JOURNAL NEWS: FOLLOW THE WILL OF NEW YORKERS AND TAKE DOWN THE MAP

On the heels of yet another burglary that has raised suspicion of a connection to the Journal News’ interactive gun license-map, the Rockland County Clerk’s Office has requested in writing that the White Plains-based newspaper take the map down. Regulations in NY SAFE, the new gun control law passed this week by the state of […]

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