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...expel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. Buchanan charged that there were "only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli defense ministry and its amen corner in the U.S." New York Times columnist A.M. Rosenthal accused Buchanan of anti-Semitism and "blood libel" (a reference to the canard leveled by bigots since the Middle Ages that Jews kill Christian children and use their blood in making Passover matzo). Rosenthal's attack was so outrageous that Buchanan survived the storm...
...distraught about the tangled affairs of his debt-laden companies? Was his death somehow related to his alleged links with Israeli intelligence? Only two weeks earlier, Seymour Hersh had alleged in his book The Samson Option that the billionaire maintained ties to Mossad. (Maxwell promptly sued for libel.) If he did indeed have a Mossad connection, did that give someone a reason to have Maxwell killed? Other seemingly farfetched speculation suggests a CIA connection. Or, alternatively, did a member of his crew, rumored to be occasional victims of his wrath, exact revenge...
...faced nearly 4,500 subpoenas in 1989, the only year for which statistics exist. Editors and attorneys agree that the volume has surged since. The demands have expanded beyond criminal cases to civil suits, which now account for a third of all subpoenas. Some involve government policy or alleged libel. Many are routine requests for published stories. But in a rising number of cases, the demands are invasive, the battle is over money, and the conflict strictly involves private parties. That was actually the case in Cincinnati, where P&G failed to prevent the leaking of internal policy debates, then...
...print. Kennedy condoned the widespread journalistic practice of emending quotations in the areas of grammar and syntax and went even further, stating that "deliberate alteration of the words uttered by a plaintiff does not equate with knowledge of falsity" for the purpose of meeting the actual malice test for libel suits brought by a public figure. Changing a quotation, Kennedy reasoned, can betray a reckless disregard for the truth only "when the alteration results in a material change in the meaning conveyed by the statement." Whether that sort of alteration happened when Malcolm profiled Masson will now be decided...
PRESS Doctored quotes are something a libel jury can ponder...