Yes, but...what they essentially told the reporter is: here is the report but it is bullshit.Fine. Do we agree that the writer was NOT instructed by the police to not publish the police report?
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Yes, but...what they essentially told the reporter is: here is the report but it is bullshit.Fine. Do we agree that the writer was NOT instructed by the police to not publish the police report?
Fine. Do we agree that the writer was NOT instructed by the police to not publish the police report?
I get the Greenville News online and there was an article today from the same reporter (guess GN decided to carry it), pretty much defending everything he initially wrote. They aren't going to admit to any wrongdoing.If they got it wrong on bad information, fine. That sucks and it's not responsible journalism, but it is what it is.
But I'd like to see an article of equal exposure from them acknowledging their false reporting and apologizing to the wrongly accused. I sickens me that newspapers, politicians, teachers, cops, lawyers, etc. can ruin a person's public image with no consequences. A bar fight in 5 points is a relatively mild example, but it shows you how easily a hack newspaper can destroy lives if they want to.
Eventhough a newspaper is hard to beat in court on this matter, I would love for a firm like Motley Rice to go after them and make the State and McClatchy sweat a little. This is a case and circumstances that could make them sweat.I think when the police tell a reporter the witness account wasn't credible or confirmed, one could reasonably infer the police were suggesting that the newspaper ought not to run the piece. At least, by making such a comment, they would have been suggesting this to any reputable news outlet. But here we are dealing with Josh Kendall ethics. So it was yippee kayay, let's sell some papers with sensationalism.
I know you really, really want it to be some sort of intentional persecution, punishable by law, but it's really nothing of the sort. As a lawyer, I'd expect you to know this. Police file report. Newspaper publishes report. That is literally the entire story. No law firm is going to waste a second of time on something like that.Eventhough a newspaper is hard to beat in court on this matter, I would love for a firm like Motley Rice to go after them and make the State and McClatchy sweat a little. This is a case and circumstances that could make them sweat.
As I previously noted, hard to win these cases against newspapers even when they outright lie...but you did leave out one key element: Police tell reporter that individuals are not actual suspects. And you never know what a jury will do.I know you really, really want it to be some sort of intentional persecution, punishable by law, but it's really nothing of the sort. As a lawyer, I'd expect you to know this. Police file report. Newspaper publishes report. That is literally the entire story. No law firm is going to waste a second of time on something like that.
Except for sensationalizing it by adding the part about the "victim" being a Marine war vet and feeding it to ESPN as fast as he could....Police file report. Newspaper publishes report. That is literally the entire story...
Was that in the police report?Except for sensationalizing it by adding the part about the "victim" being a Marine war vet and feeding it to ESPN as fast as he could.
Do you have a copy of the police report? Would be curious to see it.
Somebody posted it last week and Kevin McCrary read it on Sportstalk.Do you have a copy of the police report? Would be curious to see it.
Somebody posted it last week and Kevin McCrary read it on Sportstalk.
The Greenville news would never hire a USC grad to report on Clemons...Plus their editors would kill any hit pieces before it got to press...For some reason our top brass thinks being the major University in the state, means we should tolerate this kind of crap..I feel the opposite is true..I have always believed USC should buy that awful rag and give it to the School of Journalism as a teaching project
The Clemsux News in Greenville SUCKS! Yes, it sucks and is Pathetic! I hate everything associated with that POS for twenty years. And by the way, Furman isn't even the Upstate by the way they non report anything good. Yes, occasionally they will give USC positive press, but they kiss that redneck orange a$$ to the hilt!The Greenville news would never hire a USC grad to report on Clemons...Plus their editors would kill any hit pieces before it got to press...For some reason our top brass thinks being the major University in the state, means we should tolerate this kind of crap..I feel the opposite is true..I have always believed USC should buy that awful rag and give it to the School of Journalism as a teaching project
The Greenville news would never hire a USC grad to report on Clemons...Plus their editors would kill any hit pieces before it got to press...For some reason our top brass thinks being the major University in the state, means we should tolerate this kind of crap..I feel the opposite is true..I have always believed USC should buy that awful rag and give it to the School of Journalism as a teaching project
Benji Norton is a USC journalism school grad!!!!!!!!!1!!