Side-Line editorial staff threatened after publishing Charles Manson newsThe staff of the Belgian industrial / gothic / electro music magazine Side-Line ( www.side-line.com ) has been threatened in the past days after publishing details on a new Charles Manson album holding demo material by the mass murderer. Manson was convicted of conspiracy to commit the Tate-LaBianca murders, which members of the Manson Family commune carried out at his instruction. Since the article went online on May 1st, the staff received various phonecalls and hatemail in their mailbox of which the content was pretty much threatening. In a reaction Bernard VI, chief editor of the magazine says:
"Although we take the threats seriously, the magazine will not press charges at the moment as it prefers to handle the matter in a civilized way." The magazine suspects that the mails have been sent from various ghost servers. It is not the first time that the magazine has been in trouble after posting rather delicate news. Some famous illegal download site also started harassing the magazine's members via phone and e-mail when they published some negative news on their business. "It will not stop us from posting news that matters for our readers and I am sure that every other magazine would react the same way," Bernard VI concludes.
Kind regards,
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