Legal Threat From The Times
On 7 July 2008 Peter Wilby reported in The Guardian that The Times' legal manager Alastair Brett had written to Edwards threatening legal action. He had asked the editors of Media Lens, on copyright grounds, to remove emails received from Bronwen Maddox which they had incorporated into an article on her writings concerning Iran. This was complied with.
Brett added that Maddox had received "vexatious and threatening emails from visitors to Media Lens" and threatened an application for a high court injunction to prevent their users from contacting Maddox. Although Maddox reported receiving dozens of comments, the only email directly quoted by Brett and Maddox was from "the second coming of Jesus Christ" with a threat to fire Maddox, which had been sent in similar form to dozens of other journalists and to Media Lens itself. Wilby quoted Edwards asking "what world do these people live in that they have to be so protected from the rough and tumble of political debate?" David Peterson condemned both Kamm and Maddox in a critique written for Media Lens.
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