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...superstar Michael Jackson today brought a $100 million lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, the producers of "Hard Copy," calling a January 9 report aired by the TV tabloid show "slanderous, vicious and wholly fabricated." Diane Dimond, the "Hard Copy" reporter for the segment, claimed that a videotape had surfaced, allegedly showing Jackson sexually involved with a young boy, and that prosecutors had reopened their child molestation case against the singer. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office has denied that it is investigating such a tape. Also named in the suit: "Hard Copy" producer Stephen Doran, two hosts...
...widespread as frequently assumed and that many scoops still come the old-fashioned way -- by hard work. Despite a claim that Hard Copy paid $1,000 for its newsmaking peek last August at a social worker's report on the molestation charge against Jackson, reporter Diane Dimond describes spending three hours in a Santa Monica bar copying every word of the 25-page file in longhand. (She could not legally take away the original, which documented the plaintiff's story.) "I didn't pay one dime on the Jackson story," says Dimond, "and everybody in the world is now following...
...proposal to raise public transportation fares failed at a meeting of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) yesterday, said MBTA spokesperson Peter Dimond...
...fare increases were proposed by the MBTA advisory board's finance committee, and were voted down by a meeting of the full advisory board, Dimond said. The MBTA will still have to make cuts in order to meet its budget requirements, but will decide where to make those cuts "sometime next year," he said...
...That system's being designed," Dimond said,adding that he did not precisely how the warningsystem would work. "I don't know if it's voices orbells or what the system...