Ohio Justice Sues N.Y. Times Over Story (Timesman wrote untruths about Justice Sweeney)

GUARDIAN (UK) ^ | 5/13/03

[Liz]

Jayson Blair, and now Fox Butterfield. Will the NY Times falsehoods never end? (/sarcasm off).

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Never write a slanderous report about a state supreme court justice. If this is true, and you never can tell with the NYT tabloid these days, the guy should be called 'Butter Brain'.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[Timesink]

This is not the first time Fox Butterfield has been in trouble at The New York Times.

[martin_fierro]

"Fox Butterfield"? Fox Butterfield?

[martin_fierro]

When Pussy Galore gets a byline, I'm checking out.

[martin_fierro]

Rule #1: Don't piss off a guy who buys his ink by the barrel.

Addendum to Rule #1: NOBODY should piss off a judge.

[an amused spectator]

...newspaper attorney James Wooley said any errors were unintentional and without malice

Notice that the Times' lieyer didn't say that the piece wasn't without an agenda, something that Fox "I Hate Guns" Butterfield is absolutely famous for here on Free Republic.

[Grampa Dave]

I hope that this sets a legal precedent. Hopefully, the NY Slimes will find itself up to its lying neck with lawsuits targeting lies and half truths to advance the left wing agenda!

[Liz]

I was hoping for the same. The NYT needs to be taken down to size....a very small size

I wouldn't mind a tabloid size NYT carrying obits, puzzles and restaurant reviews.

[Liz]

Liberal lieyers........what can you expect?

[Liz]

Lamebrain is more like it.

[Grampa Dave]

How about a once aweek throwaway NYSlime with restaurant ads, ads for homosexuals wanting to meet other homosexuals, and their weekly Diversity Cry story about an illegal alien with 16 bastards kids suffering under the evil GW and Texas oilmen.

[Liz]

You'd make a great NYT editor.

[mewzilla]

I can see the NYP headline now: Oops, They Did It Again!

[Grampa Dave]

What did I do to you? Sob, you posted: You'd make a great NYT editor.

[ThomasMore]

any errors were unintentional and without malice

Here we go with the "absence of malice BS"!

[Grampa Dave]

The NY Post needs to have a section of its front page showing the latest lies/half truths of the NY Slimes.

Then in a back section, they should list all of the NY Slimes lies since the communists took over Russia.

[Grampa Dave]

The Slimes if you listen to them only lies unintentionally and without malice in their hit pieces against those they don't agree with.

[mabelkitty]

Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-Ohio) was the prosecutor for the case, and she refused to allow it to go forward.

She was in the process of starting up her campaign for the House of Representatives, so this would have cramped her style. It was a huge national story, as the guy has been trying for decades to clear his father's name.

The new prosecutor, William Mason, finally sent it to trial, and Reese lost.

Wonder why Tubbs-Jones got cleared in this. She was obviously derelict in her duties. She, too, should have recused herself if she had no intention of following the rule of law.