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...When she turned vegetarian on the air last year during a piece about mad cow disease, cattle prices plummeted. Along with 12 other ranchers, cattle feeder Paul Engler (who lost $6.7 million as a result) is now suing Winfrey under a 1995 Texas law that protects agricultural products from slander. Her fateful words? "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" No point in horsing around. Winfrey may be able to settle the dust by promoting burger magnate Dave Thomas' opus "Well Done" on her next Book Club show...
Richard Jewell's ordeal should remind us how quickly our news media can turn into tools of gossip and slander. The news media has a right and a responsibility to report on issues that concern us as citizens. That includes the right and the responsibility to report on law enforcement investigations and court proceedings. But where there is a right there is not always a responsibility. Sometimes, the news media has a right to report but a responsibility...
...will not cause irreparable harm to those that do not deserve it. Richard Jewell did not enjoy such journalistic prudence, and his life may never be the same. Mark Twain wrote: "It takes your enemy and you friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news...
...Carney. "It says that despite federal rules, Marceca was able to inspect his FBI file in Craig Livingstone's office after he was dismissed over a problem in his FBI background report." Marceca read allegations against him given to the FBI by two women, whom he later sued for slander. Marceca's plea comes as a further embarrassment to a Clinton Administration trying to quietly put the whole files fiasco to rest. "This is the first indication that the FBI files were misused," says Carney. "There may not be a sinister motive, but gross incompetence is not something to dismiss...
...professor's statements are, professors have the right to say what they wish. In fact, everyone in the Harvard community should feel free to engage in the dialogue that the First Amendment was designed to protect, even if their ideas are hurtful or offensive to others. Although libel, slander and words which create "clear and present danger" should be outlawed, feisty political rhetoric should not be censored. Bigoted or misguided ideas should face a barrage of pointed counter-arguments, not the hollow response of silent protests...