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...celebrated suit brought by the supermarket chain Food Lion against ABC has frequently been misrepresented as a grand constitutional battle, a conflict over whether the First Amendment lets reporters commit fraud. The recent federal appeals court decision throwing out almost all of the damages against ABC represents a narrowly and wisely drawn opinion that protects press freedoms without giving the news media an open license to violate...
...Lynch's artistic vision more than a mere fixation on the eclectic and the bizarre? To be sure, Lynch's work holds a tremendous, albeit sometimes ironic, sense of poignancy. Take Twin Peaks, for instance: While the producers at ABC, as well as a nation of television viewers, were obsessed with "Who Killed Laura Palmer?", Lynch affirmed that the focus of the project was never the identification of the killer, but rather the depiction of one town's reaction to the loss of innocence. Twin Peaks was unsuccessful because it was marketed like a "Dallas" episode. Forced to finger...
Investigative journalists breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday when a federal appeals court ruled that ABC won?t have to pay supermarket chain Food Lion a substantial damage award after all. The decision reverses a verdict that had been seen as a significant erosion of First Amendment rights. At issue was a 1992 "Primetime Live" expos? of unsanitary Food Lion practices such as bleaching old meat to cover its odor and re-dating foods. A North Carolina jury awarded Food Lion $5.5 million (later reduced to $350,000), reasoning that although the allegations were true, the undercover methods used...
Until recently, Ellis fought back against the press the old-fashioned way--issuing forceful denials and filing the occasional libel lawsuit. Last week, though, he launched an unprecedented pre-emptive strike. With ABC's 20/20 preparing a segment about his San Diego-based diet empire, Ellis took out a full-page ad in the New York Times and other newspapers, directing readers to a website newsinterview.com where they can see the newsmagazine's full, unedited interview with him, before ABC airs its own snippets...
Ellis claims ABC is preparing an unfairly negative report. "We started giving them medical experts around the country, and they didn't want to interview them," he says. When he was interviewed by correspondent Arnold Diaz, Ellis insisted on making his own videotape. "It was more like a deposition than an interview," says Ellis, who claims ABC is retaliating for a lawsuit he filed against ABC Boston affiliate WCVB, which aired its own critical series on Metabolife in May. "Not only is that false, it's silly," says Eileen Murphy, spokeswoman at ABC, which plans to air the report...