Larry McDonald wrote:

It is important to note that since someone has been charging for his paper, the anti-SLAPP would not protect him from prosecution.

http://www.anti-slapp.org/?q=node/63

However, the Massachusetts courts had narrowly interpreted the law to apply only to activity undertaken "solely" to petition, excluding any speech made in whole or in part for commercial gain, and that speech must be undertaken on one's "own behalf as a citizen." (See, e.g., Kobrin v.Gastfriend, 443 Mass. 327 (2005)). These two limitations have worked to exclude nearly all paid broadcasters, publishers and members of the press from the law's protections.

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TAKEBACKWAREHAM
April 6, 2010