SUING THE NEW YORK TIMES
for libel & journalistic fraud
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“‘The First Amendment goes beyond protection of the press..’…‘it is the right of
the [public], not the right of the [media], which is paramount,’...for ‘without
the information provided by the press most of us and many of our representatives
would be unable to vote intelligently or to register opinions on the
administration of government generally,’…”
Cohen v. Cowles Media Co., 501 U.S.
663, 678 (1991), Justice Souter, writing in dissent with Justices Marshall,
Blackmun, and O’Connor, citing cases culminating in New York Times Co. v.
Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 278-279 (1964), cited in “Journalistic
Malpractice: Suing Jayson Blair and the New York Times for Fraud and Negligence”,
14 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 1, footnotes
62 and 156 (2003).
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PRESS RELEASE #1:
March 22, 2006 onward
"FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND PUBLIC INTEREST LAWSUIT vs THE NEW
YORK TIMES
IN VINDICATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT"
PRESS RELEASE #2:
June 9, 2006 onward
PUBLIC INTEREST LAWSUIT vs THE NEW YORK TIMES SEEKS JUDGMENT AGAINST IT,
INCLUDING REMOVAL OF ITS FRONT-PAGE MOTTO 'ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT' AS
A FALSE AND MISLEADING ADVERTISING CLAIM"
PRESS RELEASE #3:
August 22, 2006 onward
COURT DECISION IN PUBLIC INTEREST LAWSUIT vs THE NEW YORK
TIMES CONFIRMS THE TIMES' SELF-INTEREST IN JUDICIAL CORRUPTION
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OUTREACH:
The Champions & Betrayers
of Media
Accountability, The First Amendment,
& The Public Interest
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Background Paper Trail:
15 Years of
Suppression, Protectionism, & Blackballing
by THE NEW YORK TIMES
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And now, the lawsuit record....
posted below, in full, for
independent
verification --
click here:
THE LAWSUIT RECORD
ELENA RUTH SASSOWER,
individually and as Coordinator of the Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc.,
CENTER FOR JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY, INC., and
The Public as represented by them,
Plaintiffs,
v.
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, The
New York Times, ARTHUR SULZBERGER, JR., BILL KELLER, JILL ABRAMSON, ALLAN M.
SIEGAL, GAIL COLLINS, individually and on behalf of THE EDITORIAL BOARD, DANIEL
OKRENT, BYRON CALAME, MAREK FUCHS, and DOES 1-20,
Defendants.
