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I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

As of this week, thanks to an anonymous blogger and ABC News, we know all about the creepy electronic messages

Congressman Mark Foley of Florida sent to his pages.

We also learned that two Florida papers, the Miami Herald and the St. Petersburg Times,

may have been sitting on the story for almost a year.

Here's how it went for the St. Petersburg Times.

In November, the paper obtained a couple of Foley email exchanges that had been forwarded by

a page to a friend in another congressional office. The Times knew that the page had given Foley

his email address voluntarily and had told his friend in the other office that he'd had

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