Word: slanderous
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...Take the case of Elvira Mezhennaya, the 52-year-old chief editor of the City Channel, a TV station in Yaroslavl, some 270 km northeast of Moscow. She is due in court next week - the second time in three months - to face charges of slander for broadcasting a report alleging that regional financial inspector Nina Ryzhkova received a free apartment and financial rewards from Governor Anatoly Lisitsyn, the man whose operations Ryzhkova is supposed to supervise...
...mopping up of Mezhennaya began a year ago, when City Channel correspondent Alexander Kukin broadcast the report about Ryzhkova that led to the slander charge. Kukin also alleged that the heads of federal agencies in the region were beholden for their jobs to the governor. Mezhennaya says she would not have been surprised if the report had triggered a civil suit, "but criminal charges until now have been unheard of." She claims that investigators piled on the pressure, tapping her phones and impounding furniture from her modest one-bedroom apartment. While she was on vacation last autumn she popped...
...uneven, degrading to Arabs, not harsh enough for Israel's current hawkish leadership and representative of an implicit bias against Islam in the desire to paint the conflict as a religious war. They are certainly entitled to their interpretations. Yet to discern the world media's consistent and deliberate slander against Israel, one need not interpret terminology either way: It is evident simply in what the press chooses to report and to omit in its coverage of the conflict...
...opposition. Although Ashcroft's former colleagues may be loath to vote against him, we feel that he is disqualified by his actions to block the appointment of Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie L. White to the federal bench. Ashcroft repeatedly misrepresented White's record and engaged in a despicable slander campaign to improve his political position before a tight re-election race against the late Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, a race Ashcroft ultimately lost...
...Ashcroft was gearing up a short-lived campaign for the White House last year, he verbally attacked Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White, an African American whom Bill Clinton has appointed to the federal bench, for supposedly being "pro-criminal" and soft on capital punishment. The charge was outright slander. White had voted to uphold the death sentence in 41 of the 59 cases that came before him, roughly the same proportion as Ashcroft's court appointees when he was Governor. No wonder Gordon Baum, leader of white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, in 1999 included Ashcroft along with...