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...that the slavering media are instruments in a larger sociobiology that replicates, on a national (or even international) scale, the gossip dynamics of a village? Gossip - however vicious, obsessive, and intrusive - has always served an important community function. The stories work as parables, forms of instruction, universal metaphors. (What, God help us, does the parable of O.J. Simpson instruct our children about justice...
...course, the vicious intrusiveness of small-town gossips has also been an oppression - and the traditional reason why small-town people with talent and brains have fled to the big city...
...Brock, who has forged a second career as a recovering conservative, makes one admission that implicates Thomas. Brock says he used information that came indirectly from Thomas to force a retraction from a woman named Kaye Savage, who had come forward in support of Hill. Brock threatened to publicize vicious charges made by her ex-husband in a sealed child-custody dispute...
...Brock, who has forged a second career as a recovering conservative, makes one admission that implicates Thomas. Brock says he used information that came indirectly from Thomas to force a retraction from a woman named Kaye Savage, who had come forward in support of Hill. Brock threatened to publicize vicious charges made by her ex-husband in a sealed child-custody dispute...
...executives. "If the webmaster is aware of the defamatory postings but refuses to take action, then he can be held responsible," says Yasutaka Machimura, a law professor at Asia University in Tokyo. When loyal Channel 2 users heard of Nippon Life's legal action, however, they launched vicious online attacks against the company and called for a boycott...