Word: dershowitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Popkin is jailed for his lack of cooperation,leading Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz tolead a petition effort on behalf of Popkins.Popkins is eventually freed on November 29 afterthe Boston jury is disbanded...
...number of readers like Titelbaum and Peter S. Manasantivongs '99 complain that repeated misquoting and misreporting of facts has made them wary of talking to Crimson reporters at all. Hasty editing and headlining also lead to complaints of mischaracterization. Most recently, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz pointed out that a story in which he denied representing Radovan Karadzic ran with the headline "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." The story also omitted Dershowitz's caveat that he had not spoken with Karadzic in a year. As a result, the "entire thrust of the story was wrong," complained Dershowitz...
...apparently included these facts in the story and proposed the headline, "Dershowitz Denies Representing Karadzic" But the story did not end up appearing that way. It ended up with the following headline: "Dershowitz May Defend Serb Leader Karadzic." Nor did it include the important fact that I had not spoken to Karadzic for over a year...
...editor. It sure sounds like the real world of competitive journalism, where the grabby headline is more important than the boring details. Your headline writer has a job waiting for him or her at the New York Post. Your editor may be comfortable at the National Enquirer. ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ...
...Dershowitz, whose clients have included O.J.Simpson and Michael Milken, said he thinks havingKaradzic stand trial is more important thanreaching "a particular verdict...