‘If The Independent were a real newspaper with real
journalists, instead of the comic foil of the Santa Barbara
News-Press, it would find real stories to write about and not
the pretext of a story to attack its competitor for the purpose of
increasing advertising revenues.’
— David Millstein, the San Francisco-based
attorney representing the News-Press, responding to
reports that the News-Press was examining the disc drives and phone
records of its employees.