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The Story of THE RAG! St. Mary's Today Newspaper: The Night a Sheriff, States Attorney and Posse of Deputies Stole the News Kindle Edition

by Ken Rossignol (Author), Elizabeth MacKey (Illustrator), Billy Woodward Jr. (Illustrator), Format: Kindle Edition

3.7 133 ratings

Book 1 of 2: THE STORY OF THE RAG

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In the short course of less than one year, a small-town newspaper which was run on a shoe-string was featured on the front page of two major newspapers and on network news, all due to covering the news with loud flashy headlines that ‘shouted’ the news rather than boring its readers to tears. In short, the news made news.
That was just the beginning, before long the newspaper would be the target of an organized effort by a county sheriff and his deputies and a candidate for states attorney to clean the paper off newsstands the night before an election and result in a landmark First Amendment case which is now the law of the land.

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"This book drives home the importance of journalism. Every small town has corruption and our front-line of defense is the local newspaper. The history of the St. Mary's Today paper is a cautionary tale every community should know about." - Thomas F. Kimball
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
"This book will open the eyes of the naysayers. This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is not fake news. This newspaper was the real deal and this book says it all. Politicians feared him because of the truth he told. You won't be sorry you read it. The author is a genius as a writer and a journalist." - Lesley A. Cassidy
Should police officers be allowed to round up newspapers that are critical of their actions to prevent the public from reading them?
The Fourth Circuit, United States Court of Appeals had this to say:
The whole purpose of the Ku Klux Klan Act was to prevent public authorities from violating constitutional rights through the use of nominally private means. Whether the rights be those of small papers and their readers or those of freedmen is not dispositive. The unlawfulness of private infringement of those rights under color of state law remains the same.
We would thus lose sight of the entire purpose of § 1983 if we held that defendants were not acting under color of state law. Here, a local sheriff, joined by a candidate for State's Attorney, actively encouraged and sanctioned the organized censorship of his political opponents by his subordinates, contributed money to support that censorship, and placed the blanket of his protection over the perpetrators. Sheriffs who removed their uniforms and acted as members of the Klan were not immune from § 1983; the conduct here, while different, also cannot be absolved by the simple expedient of removing the badge.

"Francis Bacon once said, "Reading maketh a full man.". So there you have it. Indeed, if I were to go to heaven someday, I'd want to take this book with me. I once heard that (and have here modified slightly) the 3 things most difficult are - to keep a secret, to forget an injury or insult, to make good use of leisure time! Reading The Story of the Rag has been an excellent use of MY leisure time!!! And what was that I said about becoming a full man?" - Doug Gourley
"Every industry needs a Jeff Bezos or a Ken Rossignol, someone who has the intuition to see things through a positive lens and make necessary changes - and without the fear of ruffling feathers in the process. Technology needs to be harnessed to improve every sector, especially those stuck in an "it's always been done this way" mentality." --- Entertainment King

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This description of the historic court case was written by Jane Kirtley in the American Journalism Review: Censorship at 75 Cents a Copy
Some sheriff's deputies in St. Mary's County, Maryland, were as steamed asthe region's famous blue crabs.
The November 1998 election was approaching. Their favored candidates,incumbent Sheriff Richard Voorhaar and lawyer Richard Fritz, running for state'sattorney, were on the ballot.
But the problem was that the local weekly newspaper, St. Mary's Today, had along history of criticizing county officials in general and law enforcementpersonnel in particular. The newspaper's brand of journalism was robust, to saythe least. It had called one of the deputies a "drunk," another a "child abuser"and a third a "shoeshine boy."
The deputies didn't take kindly to this sort of abuse. According to courtdocuments, they claimed that the paper was "unsavory" and published "outrightlies." What really worried them, though, was that St. Mary's Today was due topublish on Election Day, and the deputies anticipated the paper would takepotshots at Voorhaar and Fritz without giving them an opportunity to defendthemselves.
So, as told in court records, the deputies cooked up a scheme to "protest[their] disagreement" with St. Mary's Today Publisher Kenneth Rossignol's"irresponsible journalism." They agreed to buy as many copies of the newspaperas they could from stores and vending machines before citizens could purchasethem. They even planned to stage a "bonfire party" afterward. That ought to"piss off" Rossignol, they figured.
The deputies checked with Voorhaar and Fritz, both of whom approved the planand kicked in some money to support the enterprise. Fritz advised them that itmight be a good idea to get receipts to prove that they had bought the papers,not stolen them.
On election eve, six deputies set out on their mission. They were off duty,driving personal cars, and out of uniform. But two of them carried servicerevolvers. One wore a Fraternal Order of Police sweatshirt. And they were wellknown to the clerks in the convenience stores who routinely gave them freecoffee and soft drinks.
When the deputies asked to buy all of one store's newspapers, a clerk latertestified that they made it "real apparent [that] they could make my life here aliving hell" if he declined to sell them.
In a few hours, the deputies visited 40 stores and 40 news-boxes, cadging atleast 1,300 copies of St. Mary's Today, which has a circulation of 5,300. Onewitness later claimed he could not find "any papers anywhere in the county."
And sure enough, as the deputies had expected, the paper carried a front-pageheadline declaring "Fritz Guilty of Rape," referring to the candidate's guiltyplea to a charge of carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old more than 30 yearsearlier, along with a story about a complaint filed against Voorhaar over hishandling of a sexual harassment claim.
Rossignol filed a federal civil rights suit a year later, claiming that theofficials had violated the First, Fourth and 14th Amendments, as well as statelaw. A federal district judge threw out the suit, finding that the deputies hadnot acted "under color of state law" when they bought the papers, but as privatecitizens. And because no "police action" occurred, Fritz and Voorhaar got off,too.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals saw it differently. In a unanimousopinion by Chief Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a three-judge panel ruled in Januarythat the deputies' conduct amounted to a "systematic, carefully organized planto suppress the distribution of St. Mary's Today" because they disagreed withits viewpoint, and to "retaliate against those who questioned their fitness forpublic office." That's exactly the "kind of suppression of political criticismthat the First Amendment was intended to prohibit," Wilkinson observed.
Just because the deputies were acting outside their normal working hoursdidn't mean they weren't using the power of their office to carry out theirplan, the court found. Like law enforcement officials who conspired with Ku KluxKlan members to intimidate former slaves, "the conduct here...cannot be absolvedby the simple expedient of removing the badge," Wilkinson wrote.
If the deputies disagree with what St. Mary's Today had to say, they are freeto denounce the paper, Wilkinson suggested. They can even sue for libel. But ashe concluded, "to summon the organized force of the sheriff's office to thecause of censorship" "belongs to a society much different and more oppressivethan our own." One where the government, not the citizen, decides what is thetruth and what are "outright lies."

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I believe St. Mary's Today brought more transparency to Southern MD law enforcement. I never had a problem with citizens learning what their law enforcement tax dollars were purchasing. I believe the more they knew about police work, the more support they would give us, and for the most part, I found that to be true. Any embarrassment caused by exposing our mistakes only served to make us stronger and more efficient, and to avoid those mistakes in the future.
To anyone on the job who argued that you were just out to bash us, I firmly pointed out that your dad was a police officer, and your son is now one. Doing what you did in "The Rag", was good, "in the trenches" journalism, which differed from merely printing the press releases written by the officers. The addition of pictures taken from the scenes gave everyone a better insight into crime, criminals, and what it was like on our streets.
I was a loyal subscriber for many years. I miss the paper and wish it was still in operation.
Patrick A. Murphy - Retired Chief of Police, Berwyn Heights Police Dept.; Retired Commander, Southern Maryland Criminal Justice Academy; Charles County Sheriff's Dept. 1st. Lieutenant; United States Marine Corps

Travel along with the most feared man in Southern Maryland. So notorious even the mob backed down. Cops who went after him found themselves in federal court on the losing side. His name is Ken Rossignol and he packs a fully loaded Smith & Corona (or at least the digital equivalent).
Ken's ammo: words. He's a champion of the First Amendment and an old fashioned pain in the ass.
The story of St. Mary's Today is one about advocacy journalism coming to a community where the press wasn't known for acting this way. No more go-along to get-along.
There wasn't a hand providing nourishment that Rossignol wouldn't take a little flesh and muscle from. At one point or another Ken pissed off just about everyone, including a couple governors of Maryland and me. But he sold newspapers and those who hated him still read his words each and every week.
Dave Statter - Broadcast news reporter WUSA, WTOP in Washington, D.C. for 32 years, STATter911.com, Statter Communications LLC

"He talks about DWI and drugs and waste in government. Regardless of who's involved, he tells it like it is." Washington Post front page article April 8, 1991
Larry Millison - St. Mary's County Commissioner, Developer, Horse Breeder.

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St. Mary's Weekly:
Black and White and Dread All Over
To spend an evening with Rossignol is to turn the clock back to the down-and-dirty days of police beat reporting when "legmen" chased ambulances to accidents and fires and police cruisers to the scenes of crimes. --- The Washington Post, April 8, 1991

LEXINGTON PARK -- DRUNK DRIVERS RAMPAGE ON COUNTY ROADS! STATE TO BLOW TAX MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN! DWI HIT PARADE EACH WEEK!
Screaming headlines that often take up more space than the overblown prose that follows. An eye-boggling layout that is almost impossible to decipher. Page after page of photos of auto accidents and police officers arresting suspects in various crimes, especially drunken driving.
It's St. Mary's Today, a tabloid that erupted this summer from the ashes of a failed printing business to anger government officials, embarrass nearly anyone arrested for drunken driving and unabashedly huckster for the political favorites of its publisher, Kenneth C. Rossignol.
He and a staff of three full-time and two part-time reporters work almost around the clock monitoring police radios, covering accidents, burglaries and convenience store stickups.
The paper also publishes a weekly list of suspects charged with driving while intoxicated and prominently displays pictures of those arrested.
"No news is too trivial for St. Mary's Today," Mr. Rossignol said.
Critics call the paper trash at worst and the National Enquirer of St. Mary's County at best. Yet they concede that it has a wide readership.
"I don't know if people are taking it seriously, but they are enjoying it," added J. Abell Longmore, owner of the Ben Franklin store in Leonardtown. --- The Baltimore Sun, Sept. 10, 1990

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Notes on Country Journalism
By James J. Kilpatrick
Winning a Pulitzer Prize at The New York Times may be the absolute pinnacle of a newspaper career, but a case now pending in the U.S. Supreme Court suggests that country journalism may be more exciting.
The story goes back to election night in November 1998. In St. Mary's County, Maryland, Sheriff Richard Voorhaar was running for re-election. His friend Richard Fritz was a candidate for state's attorney. The county (pop. 87,721) lies 60 miles southeast of Washington, close enough to the capital for purposes of commuting, but still a nice place for small-town and country living.
Into this bucolic milieu, 15 years ago, came Kenneth C. Rossignol, a young journalist with an old tradition. He launched a weekly newspaper, St. Mary's Today, and began doing what good editors always do. He began raising hackles. He was especially critical of Voorhaar and his deputies. They complained that his "constant belittlement" continued "week, after week, after week."
It was the sheriff's bad luck that the panel would speak through Judge Wilkinson, who was editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot before he went on the bench. He and his colleagues had "no doubt that the seizure in this case was perpetrated under color of state law." The defendants executed a systematic, carefully organized plan to suppress a newspaper that had criticized them.
"If we were to sanction this conduct," said Judge Wilkinson, "we would point the way for other state officials to stifle public criticism of their policies and their performance. And we would leave particularly vulnerable this kind of paper in this kind of community. Alternative weeklies such as St. Mary's Today may stir deep ire in the objects of their irreverence, but we can hardly say that on that account they play no useful part in the political dialogue."
Meanwhile, Rossignol carries on as a country editor. Believe me, it's not a bad life at all.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006NSFV9S
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Privateer Clause Publishing (December 18, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 18, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 30237 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 438 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B091F6DB43

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• THE CHESAPEAKE: Six books in the series --Tales & Scales; Legends, Yarns, & Barnacles; Oyster Buyboats, Ships & Steamed Crabs; A Man Born to Hang Can't Drown; Country Cornpone Cornucopia; and Tidewater Sagas provides the shared memories of those who lived life to the fullest in the Chesapeake region. -

• CHESAPEAKE 1850: Steamboats & Oyster Wars – the News Reader begins the fictional story of the Ethan Douglas family when at the age of ten, Ethan arrived to live with his grandfather, the captain of a Chesapeake Bay steamship. Over the next thirty years, the family faces a life of oyster pirates, hurricanes, the civil war and the dawning of the age of industrialization.

• CHESAPEAKE 1880 takes up the next three decades of life in the Chesapeake region.

• CHESAPEAKE 1910 relates the world-shaking events of the war as well as the effect of Prohibition.

• PIRATE TRIALS series – Accounts from the 18th and 19th century of true crimes of ruthless and bloodthirsty pirates included the excruciatingly detailed trials and their glorious executions which included these killers being hanged by the neck until dead; hung upon a gibbet at low tide, and that old favorite of ‘drawn and quartered’.

• TITANIC 1912 is the lead in to the saga of the world’s most famous sea disaster, two other books are in the series.

As a maritime history speaker, Rossignol enjoys meeting audiences around the world and discussing the original news stories of the sinking of the RMS Titanic and other maritime history topics.

Traveling the high seas around the world is the way that the author keeps in touch with the adventures of the Sea Empress and keeps the voyages interesting and the stories coming.

In recent years Rossignol has appeared on dozens of ships in the Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and the Caribbean discussing the stories of the history of the Panama Canal, the heroes of the Titanic, the explorations of the new world voyagers, the Bermuda Triangle and the history of piracy, among other maritime history topics.

Rossignol appears at the Titanic Museum Attractions in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Branson, Missouri for book signings and to talk with visitors about the RMS Titanic.

With a recent visit to the International Book Fair 2016 in Panama as one of the United States Delegation authors and entertainers Rossignol enjoyed telling the stories of the History of the Panama Canal, Piracy and of the heroes of the Titanic.

He has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC 20/20; ABC World News Tonight and in a 2012 production of Discovery Channel Investigation Motives & Murders Series, A Body in the Bay.

Rossignol’s landmark First Amendment case, represented by Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz re: United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Rossignol v Voorhaar, 2003, spelled out that public officials cannot retaliate against a publisher for criticism of their official acts.

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Messages For The Soul

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I have read quite a few of author Ken Rossignol's books and have to say that I have found "The Story of THE RAG!" to be one of the most interesting and enjoyable reads so far. I love little-known history and this story is a riveting one. The fact that Rossignol himself plays a big part in it is also quite intriguing.

This book recounts the history of a small-town newspaper in Maryland that was run much different than any other. Pretty much a one-man show, run by Rossignol, the St. Mary's Today newspaper was known for its flashy tabloid-esque headlines and no-holds-barred news reporting. Readers seemed to love it, unless they were the ones being reported on. This is where the controversy arose. One story in particular, about a decades-old rape involving a now candidate for states attorney caused much contention. In fact, after a late night raid by a posse of deputies of all of the news stands just before the election, things got interesting. With the FBI now involved, Constitutional rights came into question.

This was a fascinating account, not only of an interesting news story that I found pretty disturbing, but also of the rights of the newspaper to report the news as it saw it years later. The publisher's motives were called into question at every turn and this isn't surprising when people, good or bad, are fighting for their political lives. Another well written and fascinating account from Rossignol.

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A fascinating read on how a small-town newspaper came to be!

I have to say, although I knew nothing of this paper ("The Rag") and had no connection to it, the story was gripping nonetheless; I found myself eager to learn more about it. Ken Rossignol has, and willingly shares, an abundance of interesting stories about his newspaper.

Definitely the reader will find some funny incidents and some somber ones to connect to. On occasion I was genuinely concerned for the welfare of the people Ken told about! There were some pretty scary situations, actually. We're talking about dealing with gritty events and shady people; drugs, murders, abuse, and more "dark side" matter.

NOTE to the discerning reader: In addition to some of the topics mentioned above, there is on occasion some vulgar words, or references to them.

I actually had both the audiobook and ebook version of The Story of the Rag. I decided to listen to the book as audio, but then I would flip through the ebook later for all the pictures and newspaper "toons" -- which really help to tie the whole book together. Both the audiobook and ebook make for a great-quality read -- no matter which YOU pick!

Overall? Ken told about it ALL in a compelling way. He got me entangled in The Rag by the end, that's for sure.

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Great! If you live in the area.

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2016

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This “book” reads more like the diary of the author, a “kiss-and-tell” of EVERYTHING that happened while he was publishing a newspaper in St. Mary's County or parish or wherever that is. It is a revealing, and perhaps nostalgic for someone familiar with the neighborhood. But for anyone far removed... a bit confusing and meaningless.

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A MUST READ for Every American today, at this point in our history!

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2012

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I recently re-read this book again and enjoyed it as much as the 1st time I read it. I lived in So. Md. working as a Police Officer of the Charles County Sheriff's Office for 25 years retiring as a Lt. During that time I watched "St. Mary's Today" (known locally as "THE RAG") started from scratch as a once a week newspaper printed in the tabloid style, which is so easy to hold and read. It's owner, publisher, editor, reporter, photographer, layout man and distributor, Ken Rossignol did it all as he slowly build his sales and adding other reporters, photographers and office help that were all dedicated to making this newspaper the "people's newspaper of So. Md., which they accomplished and even to a twice a week edition. Few self respecting law enforcement officers of any of the So. Md. agencies would admit to reading this paper because it so often, writing in brutal honestly and the common words that awaken most citizens (as Mr. Trump has done today) and exposing poor investigations, reports and actions of US (the police)! But those, hated stories, made each of us better, more professional police officers and that produced cases that stood up in courts and their appeal process, though many didn't recognize that. But "The Rag" was fair and also pointed out the good things we did and was actually pro police and pro every thing that is good for the citizen and their government. The paper was tenacious and dug far deeper behind the scenes exposing the "Good Ole Boys" back room deals so often found down in the Mother County of Maryland in those days. Though denying reading, much less purchasing, "The Rag", on the days it was published I never saw an officer who couldn't discuss in detail most of the articles exposing the "back room deals", crooked politicians, bad or poor policing in the squad room at shift change. Those who didn't covertly purchase a copy, acquired one by watching the trash cans around headquarters and extracting a discarded copy to read. It was a MUST read paper for all the power figures and government employees of the 3 So.Md. counties, even if to just make sure your name wasn't mentioned in a story!

Through those years I got to slowly know it's "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer" Ken Rossignol. Often he showed up on serious injury motor vehicle accidents, especially those with deaths and early on, in all honestly, I treated him as an adversary and ordered him to stand far away from "my scene"! Never once did he complain. So over time, with confidence in my own actions, I loosened up and gave him the normal freedoms extended to the press. No formal discussion, just a mutual understanding of boundaries that had to be respected. This eventually led to a tentative friendship and on to one that has stood the test of time.

The "Story of The Rag" is a compilation of who was who, who did what, the back room deals and politics of old time So. Md. that are so entertainingly revealed in this book. They really did happen, just as they happened across our nation at various times and ways. But the single most story in the book was an event that is enshrined in the teaching of News Media courses of every major college and university in our nation as well as every reporter, editor, publisher and attorney's of every publication in our great country. It resulted in a landmark decision by our US Supreme Court! A Sheriff and States Attorney running re-election got wind of a story exposing and old criminal sex charge with statements by the victim about the, then young, States Attorney that had been concealed and sealed from the public for years. The Sheriff was to heavily committed in this election running as a team with this States Attorney, and both had strong opponents running against them. Such a story had the very strong potential to turn the razor close race against them to defeat of both. So a plan was hatched between them, with a group of off duty deputies doing the leg work, to buy up every edition in the wee hours of that election morning so no one could read the story. So off duty, in civilian clothes (though several forgot to hide their badges and all were recognized as local Deputies) they spread out going into every convenience store, or place where "The Rag" was sold. Using money provided by the Sheriff and States Attorney, they literally brought every single edition at each story. When some cashiers objected they quickly were intimidated into allowing the sale to be completed. Every newspaper sales box was also emptied (though payment was made for each paper, all to suppress the political story that would have, most likely, have turned the election from victory to defeat. The Sheriff and States Attorney were re-elected and the group celebrated their coup!

But "The Rag" quickly discovered what had happened, who had did what and in it's next edition exposed the whole story for all to read. AND they filed suit in court. The plaintiff's, the Sheriff and States Attorney chuckled privately and laughed publicly but as this case wound it's way into the Federal Courts and a series of defeats with an occasional win they grew more worried. Ben Bradlee the internatiolly known, and respected, editor of the Washington Post, and friend and mentor of Ken, introduced a reknown defender of issues of the press. This powerful attorney took up the case of the Rag in the Federal Courts and, in an earth shattering final victory at the US Supreme Court, established Land Mark decision as to the "FREEDOM OF THE PRESS" and "DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEWS!" A decision that, though few know or recognize, protects every citizen's "right to know" what their elected officials or other figures of government (huge or tiny) do, how they do it and who benefits from it.

The book is a true story of a modern day David fighting the Giant simply for the right to write, publish and distribute the news! I re-read the book and rewrote my review as today I see a news media that is heavily biased. A news media that prints story's not as news, but attempts to mold the story to favor who "they like" and attack those "they don't like"! No matter your party one need only look in a dispassionate manner at our current presidential campaigns and how they are being reported to see it happening. Where are the Ben Bradlee's and Ken Rossignol's now? Where is the news media (TV or Print) with the courage to stand up and tell the truth? And YES! This book disproves the famous movie line delivered by Jack Nicholson "YOU CAN'T STAND THE TRUTH!" WE CAN!

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