First, as a reminder, Scaife provided large amounts of money to dig into the private affairs of Bill Clinton looking for a scandal with which to take down his presidency.
Second, during the 2004 presidential election, Scaife's newspaper, the Tribune Review, was party to a lawsuit seeking to unseal the estate records of the late Senator John Heinz, Teresa Heinz-Kerry's late first husband.
Now, Mr. Scaife is personally outraged that the details of his recent divorce are available for public viewing.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07266/819835-85.stmAttorneys for Tribune-Review publisher Richard M. Scaife have filed court papers demanding the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette return documents related to the divorce of Mr. Scaife and his wife, Margaret Ritchie Battle Scaife.
In response, the Post-Gazette, arguing that no court has the right to force a newspaper to surrender documents lawfully in its possession, has posted those documents on its Web site, with some personal, financial and third-party information removed.
"Mr. Scaife has asked the court to do something unprecedented: stop a newspaper from writing about documents that were publicly available and highly newsworthy," said David M. Shribman, executive editor of the Post-Gazette.
"That effort is newsworthy in and of itself. As we will advise the court, such a prior restraint would be a clear violation of the First Amendment and of press prerogatives and freedoms that all newspapers cherish. In the meantime, we have posted the most significant of those documents on our Web site and will continue to evaluate whether additional postings should be made."
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