Word: libelous
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...HAVE BEEN QUITE PUBLIC ABOUT YOUR DEPRESSION, WHICH STARTED 20 YEARS AGO, DURING THE LIBEL TRIAL WILLIAM WESTMORELAND V. CBS. DID THE TRIAL TRIGGER WHAT WAS ALREADY THERE? I have a hunch that my mother suffered from depression. But when you're called a liar, a cheat and a fraud, you worry about it. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, thought about suicide. My wife Mary said, "You're depressed." My own doctor said, "Don't talk about depression. You're a tough guy. It's bad for your image to suggest that you're depressed." That happens...
...similar horror stories from more than 60 other on-the-record sources. Food Lion filed suit against ABC even before the broadcast and now claims that the broadcast cost the company between $1.7 billion and $2.5 billion in lost sales and stock-price dips. But it has not filed libel charges against ABC. Rather, it has sued ABC and four PrimeTime producers for, among other things, fraud, trespass and deceptive trade practices...
...verdict is so anxiety provoking for journalists because the accuracy of PrimeTime's reporting is not at issue. Although Food Lion has publicly contended that the segment was deceptive--certain footage was staged and misleadingly edited, it says--it was unable to file a libel suit before the statute of limitations expired. Instead, the company is challenging the ways in which PrimeTime obtained its information. The jury has already awarded the chain $1,402 in damages as partial payment for training costs and wages doled out to PrimeTime's faux workers. The punitive-damage award could be in the millions...
...nine whites. Then the 1730s saw a sharp challenge to the overbearing and pompous governor, William Cosby, who was the leader of the so-called Court Party. White intellectuals revolted with words, and formed the opposition Country Party. The printer John Peter Zenger’s acquittal of seditious libel in 1735 rocked Cosby and encouraged the governor’s opponents. After Cosby died, his critics denied the authority of the lieutenant governor and formed a shadow government. To one resident, “we had all the appearance of a civil...
President Woodrow Wilson called Griffith's fable about the Civil War and its aftermath "history written in lightning." Others decried it as a libel of blacks and a whitewash of the Ku Klux Klan. Both views are correct. Griffith was a racist and a film genius who poured his love for the Old South and his pioneering cinematic ingenuity into an epic that is at once malignant and magnificent...