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...underreport enemy troop strength and create the illusion that the U.S. was winning the Viet Nam War. After the January broadcast, the angered general turned down the network's offer of 15 minutes' rebuttal time and last September slapped CBS with a $120 million libel suit. That suit is generating its own prickly set of constitutional complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Full-Court Press on CBS | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...Gordon Sauter in a memorandum made public in July. Drawing on Benjamin's study, Sauter conceded that the program had deviated from certain CBS News practices, but stood by its substance as essentially accurate. Westmoreland's lawyers, contending that Sauter's statement had constituted a further libel, sought the complete Benjamin report to use in making their case. CBS refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Full-Court Press on CBS | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

Unfairness. "Readers are quick to pick up on hatchet jobs. They don't like them. Often those readers get on libel juries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Why Readers Mistrust Newspapers | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

There, I said it. If I'm wrong, the Sparts are free to sue me for libel. It's more their style, however, to come beat me up. Michael T. Anderson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sparts | 5/6/1983 | See Source »

Rachmun's premeditated distortion of history provoked the responses. Zionism is a Jewish national movement and is not founded on Palestinian Arab genocide. The equation of Zionism with Nazism not only ignores the facts but has become the blood libel of contemporary times. Jews no more use Christian blood for baking matza than Zionists have as their goal the systematic liquidation of Palestinians. Zionsim, moreover, did not introduce hatred into the region. Arab countries have historically considered Jews to be second class citizens in their hands, and violence by Arabs against Jews (not to needed against other Arabs) came long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another View | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

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