Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week ended with recriminations and bruised feelings all around, not to mention a large waste of official Washington's time. Brzezinski retained a lawyer to explore the possibility of a libel suit. At the Post, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee defended the series by Quinn, who happens to be his wife of 14 months, as a "son of a bitch of a good story." He described the photograph as "very suggestive." At the White House, which has lately had frosty relations with .the Post, the retraction was a delicious victory. Said one top aide: "This is the newspaper they made...
Still, it is entirely possible that . . . And Justice for All might yet advance the worthy cause of decent justice. Just watch what happens if the city fathers of Baltimore decide to hire a good libel lawyer. - Frank Rich
...became editor of the prosperous Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 40,000). Since then he has been the target of telephone threats ("You're going to be dead"), a mysterious fire, a five-pound rock through his living room window and $45 million in libel suits. He has lost his job and his life savings, and his wife and four children have left...
...first issue had 44 pages and a press run of 20,000. But advertisers drifted away, some saying they had received threats of boycotts. "It was like a crusade " remembers one of the five staff members After a suspicious fire that leveled a garage used by the Observer and libel suits from the county prosecutor and other targets of Yant's reporting, the paper was forced to close. Creditors were beating on Yant's door, and one disgruntled employe even filed charges claiming that Yant assaulted him when he tried to collect $114 in back...
...people "should regard war as a catastrophe, not an opportunity," helps explain Pearson's unrelenting animus toward Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and James Forrestal. He thought them dangerous men. Back in the '30s MacArthur had sued Pearson for close to $2 million. Pearson got out of the libel suit only after turning up a Eurasian chorus girl whom MacArthur had discarded, and agreeing not to publish, for as long as the general lived, his love letters to her. At Eisenhower's request, correspondents had suppressed the Patton soldier slapping incident; Pearson considered Patton a warrior authoritarian...