Word: alioto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even before the magazine reached the newsstands, Alioto blasted the charges as "a pack of lies" and distributed a 69-page "Analysis of Each and Every allegation in the Look article," denying any wrongdoing...
...firm, he filed what is potentially the most explosive libel suit against a magazine since 1963, when former Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts sued the Saturday Evening Post for a story saying that he conspired with Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant to fix a Georgia-Alabama football game.* Alioto demanded $7,500,000 in actual damages and $5,000,000 in punitive damages, arguing that "the editorial management of Look met and agreed, in order to increase circulation, advertising revenues and profits, to adopt a reckless policy of sensationalism...
...Angeles Times, were described in the suit as "relatively young and essentially inexperienced." This is Carlson's sixth major investigative scoop. One of his first resulted in a prison sentence for a San Francisco official involved in the embezzlement of federal funds. Says Carlson about Alioto: "A politician can be used so easily if he messes around with people like these...
...Francisco's two newspapers felt differently, putting up a strenuous defense of Alioto. The Chronicle rejected "this unfortunate piece of journalism as an imputation of guilt by association." The Examiner reprinted almost all of the mayor's lengthy denial and bannered an eight-column headline about an event of more than 50 years ago: ALIOTO'S UNCLE DEFIED MAFIA WAS SLAIN...
...case ever reaches a courtroom. Libel suits, and the threat of libel suits, are an embarrassed public official's reflex response to exposure. Yet few suits ever reach the trial stage, particularly in the light of recent Supreme Court decisions involving libel of public figures. To win, Alioto must prove malicious intent or utter carelessness in checking on the part of Look, Carlson and Brisson. Butts won his case because the Post made virtually no effort to check the story. Look, however, released a statement saying that many man-hours were spent checking and re-checking the piece. While...