Blogger Retaliates Against Paper That Published Gun Owner Addresses by Creating Interactive Map of Its Employees

In retaliation against the New York newspaper -- the Journal News -- that published the addresses of those pistol permit holders in two of the state's counties, a blogger has created a map pinpointing the addresses of the newspaper's employees.

(Related:NY Paper Broke No Laws With Gun Owner Map -- But Is It Ever Ethical to Publish Personal Info to Push an Agenda?)

Mimicking the title of the Journal News' original article, Robert Cox with "Talk of the Sound" headlined his post: Map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood?

Screenshot of Journal News employee address map. (Image: Robert Cox/ Talk of the Sound)

He wrote:

The map indicates the addresses of all Journal News Employees in the New York Tri-State area. Each dot represents an individual Journal News employee -- a reporter, editor or staffer. The data does not include freelancers — reporters or photographers — which can be hired without being an employee. Being included in this map does not mean the individual at a specific location is a responsible reporter or editor, just that they are a reporter or editor.

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To create the map, Talk of the Sound submitted Google searches for the names and addresses of all Journal News employees in the New York Tri-State area. By state law, the information is public record.

Cox went onto explain that putting together the map has been a crowd-sourced effort between other bloggers and readers. He wrote the map will be updated as more information continues to become available.

He also noted that since the publication has downsized in recent years, some of the names of employees might not be current. So far, dozens of names and addresses have been collected and published.

See the full-size map here.

Another blogger has been curating the names and addresses of News Journal employees as well (via Beta Beat). Christopher Fountain, a Greenwich, Conn., real estate agent on his blog For What It's Worth, generally composes posts about real estate and home improvement, has been voicing his thoughts on the News Journal's publishing of gun owner addresses and also recently linked Cox's interactive map of employee addresses.

Check out these stories on TheBlaze blog related to the New York paper publishing gun owners addresses:

• Shouldn't Gun Owners Be OK With Having Their Addresses Printed in a Newspaper?
• Re: Shouldn't Gun Owners Be OK With Having Their Addresses Printed in a Newspaper?

(H/T: Newsbusters)

Editor's note -- We discussed this story and during our live BlazeCast Thursday afternoon...this is the "rewind" of that broadcast: