Times-Shamrock loses defamation lawsuit
Two of Times-Shamrock's newspapers and a former reporter will have to pay $3.5 million after losing a defamation lawsuit. A judge says The Citizens' Voice, the (now) Scranton Times-Tribune, and former CV reporter Ed Lewis defamed a local businessman by tying him to an accused mobster. Whoops.
(Lewis now works for the Times Leader, whose Saturday article lacked the "Ha ha CV sucks" motif previously seen when McClatchy put the paper on the chopping block.)
(Lewis now works for the Times Leader, whose Saturday article lacked the "Ha ha CV sucks" motif previously seen when McClatchy put the paper on the chopping block.)
posted by Howard Beale at 1:07 PM
10 Comments:
Four days after posting, and this is the only comment?(!)
Actually, it makes sense to me. I think the paper business is b-o-r-i-n-g.
Yeah, me too. Not like that thrill-a-minute TV thing.
"As you can see the traffic behind me is moving at pretty much a normal pace but the snow we had earlier today left some motorists...wondering if...uh...they'd have problems on the roads today. They're not but next time it snows they might. Back to you."
Okay, maybe not so much thrill-a-minute, but funnier than "Family Circus"...and that's in the paper.
11:33 --
Well, there just isn't much to say that hasn't already been printed. Unless you want to read between the lines for similarities.
My take is this; the original story, the one that started it all, the one that precipitated the litigation, was part of a larger, far-reaching investigative piece, and none among us on the broadcasting side of things went near the story. Maybe, maybe, someone ran it as a reader at best.
Here's a prediction - the Lynett's will take this all the way to SCOTUS if possible. Like them or not, there is no way they'll cave under this huge judgement. By no means have we seen the end of this story, it could be ten years before we do.
Is this the same Ed Lewis who showed some shaky news judgement while working the assignment desk at WBRE?
The lack of comments in this thread is just proof that (with a few exceptions), this blog is 98% TV people.
The lack of comments in this thread is just proof that (with a few exceptions), this blog is 98% TV people.
either that, or 98% of the "comments" that were submitted here didn't make it out of the moderation queue.
I agree with 9:16pm....if it was Nexstar that lost a suit the kids and their keyboards would have a field day here.
The lack of comments in this thread is just proof that (with a few exceptions), this blog is 98% TV people.
And this is a surprise?
Well here's a comment on this. Why was there a Judicial trial? How in the world did the attorneys for Joseph pull that off? Some investigative reporters should take a hard look at Bench verdicts and see the financial judgements. Some of the ones I've seen are way bigger than some jury trials. And if a guy owns a newspaper, or even has a business that is known to people, is he not a public figure subject to media scrutiny?
Many questions, few answers. If as one poster said the Lynetts will drag this out for 10 years, watch for a speedier settlement.
Yonkstur
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