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[WHA73]

Stock alert 7.20 HHAHHAHAHAH

Maybe they should limit their lawsuits

Settlement reached in 1995 defamation suit against Pa. paper

By The Associated Press
07.17.06
WEST CHESTER, Pa. — A defamation case that some First Amendment advocates said could have a chilling effect on Pennsylvania media has been settled confidentially.

The settlement in the 1995 lawsuit against the Daily Local News of West Chester came after three days of testimony before a Chester County jury. Terms of the deal, reached on July 13, were not released.

“The case has been amicably resolved,” said Geoffrey R. Johnson, attorney for former Parkesburg Council President James B. Norton.

Norton and former Mayor Alan M. Wolfe sued the newspaper over quotes printed in April 1995.

In a story headlined, “Slurs, insults drag town into controversy,” reporter Tom Kennedy wrote that Councilman William T. Glenn Sr. accused the men of being “liars,” “criminals,” “queers,” “draft dodgers” and “child molesters.”

Norton, Wolfe and their wives all testified during the trial about the humiliation they suffered as a result of the allegations.

Former editors at the paper testified that they did not verify Glenn's allegations but believed the story called his credibility into question. Glenn later lost his bid for re-election, which they testified was proof of that point.

Amy B. Ginensky, a lawyer representing Kennedy, then-editor William Caufield and newspaper owner Troy Publishing Co. Inc., declined to comment. The Journal Register Co., which owns Troy Publishing, also had no comment.

A Chester County jury in March 2000 awarded Wolfe and Norton each $17,500 in punitive and compensatory damages from Glenn. But jurors also decided that Kennedy, Caufield and Troy Publishing were not liable, in part because of an instruction by the trial judge concerning the “neutral reportage privilege.”

The state Supreme Court, ruling in October 2004 in Norton v. Glenn, affirmed the lower court ruling in favor of the elected officials but ordered a new trial to decide the journalists' liability. That decision was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined in March 2005 to hear the case — setting the stage for this week's retrial in Chester County.

First Amendment advocates said the decision leaves Pennsylvania media legally vulnerable when reporting comments by public figures and could chill news coverage of political campaigns, where charges and countercharges are commonplace.

The state Supreme Court in the 2004 ruling said the media have no absolute constitutional protection when reporting defamatory comments made by reputable public figures, even when describing the comments in a neutral manner.

“This decision leaves a pall over other reporters ... and the people will hear less about their public officials than I think they should,” said David Kairys, a Temple University professor of constitutional law.

dude, don't ever let someone tell you your hate for JRC is overboard. while i've never worked for them, i know a coupla folks that do. from what i understand, a common exit interview quote by ex-employees is 'burn in heck mother forkers.'

i don't feel it, but i sense it from every JRC person i speak with.

And, in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.

Motherforkers.

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Hey cork knocker, why up so late, masturbating to 10 year old girls pix?

 

[Bob_Jelloneck]

Hey cork knocker, why up so late, masturbating to 10 year old girls pix?

Coming soon to a theatre near you.

And my lawyer has informed me, I can categorically state for the record, I do not whack off to photos of 10-year-old girls.

 

[WHA73]

JRC stock now at 7.19...You're doing a great job cork knocker JelloDick

 

[Bob_Jelloneck]

 

[blandcanyon]

I wonder who leads among the "other" chains. How many Junior Media Newses and JRs can there be out there?

 

[tenacious_g]

Uhh, how 'bout MediaNews? Hope Dean Singleton doesn't do to the Mercury News and Contra Costa Times what he did to the Oakland Tribune. But, sadly, I don't count him out either.

I've worked for Gannett... Media News... and an independent. Indy was the best, obviously. Gannett wasn't nearly as bad as I was warned, although not great. Media News gets my vote, but I haven't had the misfortune of working for all the companies.

 

[Chad Conant]

I voted in the "Other" category. And here's why.

I took a gig as the SE at my hometown paper, a family owned cat box liner of a newspaper. (First mistake.) In being offered the gig, I was told to run the sports department as I saw fit, because the ME had no interest in sports and, well, I bought it hook, line and sinker. (Second mistake.) I was also told I'd get raises after 90 days, six months and a year because I was concerned about taking a $2 per hour pay cut from my writing job and having to pay for bennies, which were picked up in whole at my first employer. I bought that, too. (Third mistake.)

Once I put in my notice and moved back home, that's when I started to get the inkling maybe something was amiss. I was told I was doing a great job, but those guaranteed pay raises never came. I was waiting on the first one the day they fired me three years later for applying to a bigger, better paper.

If you thought that sucked, it was much worse. You were forbidden from wearing jeans or shorts, although the publisher was in them all the time. There was supposed to be NO conversation in the newsroom because it was apparently distracting to the work process, even though part of that in a newsroom is being able to brainstorm with people. (They said that's what company e-mail was for.) Also, overtime was strictly frowned upon and argued if you worked any.

The best part of it, no pictures bigger than two columns because the publisher thought it meant the writers weren't doing their jobs. No matter if it was local art or Ohio State, nothing gigger than two. Also no bastarding columns.

Speaking of columns, they had to be approved by the publisher before running.

So, it really can get worse folks.

 

[Bob_Jelloneck]

I voted in the "Other" category. And here's why.

I took a gig as the SE at my hometown paper, a family owned cat box liner of a newspaper. (First mistake.) In being offered the gig, I was told to run the sports department as I saw fit, because the ME had no interest in sports and, well, I bought it hook, line and sinker. (Second mistake.) I was also told I'd get raises after 90 days, six months and a year because I was concerned about taking a $2 per hour pay cut from my writing job and having to pay for bennies, which were picked up in whole at my first employer. I bought that, too. (Third mistake.)

Once I put in my notice and moved back home, that's when I started to get the inkling maybe something was amiss. I was told I was doing a great job, but those guaranteed pay raises never came. I was waiting on the first one the day they fired me three years later for applying to a bigger, better paper.

If you thought that sucked, it was much worse. You were forbidden from wearing jeans or shorts, although the publisher was in them all the time. There was supposed to be NO conversation in the newsroom because it was apparently distracting to the work process, even though part of that in a newsroom is being able to brainstorm with people. (They said that's what company e-mail was for.) Also, overtime was strictly frowned upon and argued if you worked any.

The best part of it, no pictures bigger than two columns because the publisher thought it meant the writers weren't doing their jobs. No matter if it was local art or Ohio State, nothing gigger than two. Also no bastarding columns.

Speaking of columns, they had to be approved by the publisher before running.

So, it really can get worse folks.

Hmmm. I like the way they think. My kind of people. Are they for sale??

 

[Tom Petty]

I voted in the "Other" category. And here's why.

I took a gig as the SE at my hometown paper, a family owned cat box liner of a newspaper. (First mistake.) In being offered the gig, I was told to run the sports department as I saw fit, because the ME had no interest in sports and, well, I bought it hook, line and sinker. (Second mistake.) I was also told I'd get raises after 90 days, six months and a year because I was concerned about taking a $2 per hour pay cut from my writing job and having to pay for bennies, which were picked up in whole at my first employer. I bought that, too. (Third mistake.)

Once I put in my notice and moved back home, that's when I started to get the inkling maybe something was amiss. I was told I was doing a great job, but those guaranteed pay raises never came.  I was waiting on the first one the day they fired me three years later for applying to a bigger, better paper.

If you thought that sucked, it was much worse. You were forbidden from wearing jeans or shorts, although the publisher was in them all the time. There was supposed to be NO conversation in the newsroom because it was apparently distracting to the work process, even though part of that in a newsroom is being able to brainstorm with people. (They said that's what company e-mail was for.) Also, overtime was strictly frowned upon and argued if you worked any.

The best part of it, no pictures bigger than two columns because the publisher thought it meant the writers weren't doing their jobs. No matter if it was local art or Ohio State, nothing gigger than two. Also no bastarding columns.

Speaking of columns, they had to be approved by the publisher before running.

So, it really can get worse folks.

Hmmm. I like the way they think. My kind of people. Are they for sale??

hey bob, one quick question: have you ever sucked all the cork you wanted?