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Radiolab · Oliver Sipple · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

And then when we found them, it turned out there were like thousands and thousands upon thousands of pages.

That's everything, okay.

So the issue, you know, it's a very fundamental issue for those of us in journalism.

And to help us make sense of the arguments, you know, lurking in those pages.

What is privacy and what is invasion of privacy?

We talked to Dan Morain.

Editorial page editor of the Sacramento Bee.

He actually first heard about the case in journalism school and also wrote about Oliver Sipple way back in the 1980s.

So anyway.

Okay, so here's the first page of the file.

This is

The lawsuit was against the Chronicle.

The case is Oliver W. Sipple, plaintiff, versus the Chronicle Publishing Company.

It was against the LA Times.

The Des Moines Register, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Denver Post, the Indianapolis Star, and the San Antonio Express.

Wow.

Let's see.

So this is the deposition of Oliver W. Sipple.

Let's see.

So one of the arguments that the lawyers for the newspapers were making is that Oliver's sexuality was not actually private.

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