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Arrested? What????? Who said anything about being arrested?
No, Mr. Shapiro is taking a position at the Univerisity of Wisconsin next month as a Professor of Journalism.
There is a lot of leverage in that situation to get a full and public retraction for writing something he was shown as untrue in December and CONSCIOUSLY decided to repeat yesterday. He has been fully aware of the facts about this since mid-December.
The Journalism Department at the University of Wisconsin would be interested regarding who is teaching its students in the "craft".
They are not tough standards. Especially in this case. The NFL released a statement that was PUBLISHED in the NY Times, Washington Post, and numerous other National Newspapers that clearly stated that the Patriots did NOT tape opponent practices nor did they gain an unfair competitive advantage. Any claim by Mr. Shapiro that he didn't know of the statement released by the NFL would be a bold faced lie.
Clearly, since several people have written to him with copies of siad statement, it falls into the "reckless disregard of truthfulness".
As for damage, spreading falsehoods about someone after they have been cleared of said wrongdoing is damaging their reputation. You don't have to prove MONETARY LOSS. And they don't need monetary compensation. A libel lawsuit would probably cost Mr. Shapiro his job at the University of Wisconsin. It would also be nearly impossible for him to get hired on with another newspaper.
which UW? went to grad school in Madison and I'm hoping it ain't there.
As far as responses to the libelous action being proof that the original action was reckless, that is tenuous. He may believe that the Pats filmed walk throughs (regardless of what Angry Patriots fans like us tell him in the column reply notes), he wouldn't be alone, and the burden is on the Patriots to PROVE that is false, not the other way around.
Epic fail.
He is an NFL Hall of Fame voter.
There is nothing to prove. It's already there.
He wrote that the NFL penalized the Patriots for filming WALK-THROUGHS. Read correctly - - The NFL penalized them for THAT - - wrong!!!!
The whole world can see via the NFL's OWN WORDS when the penalty was handed down that it was for filming DURING GAMES (with 70,000+ people around who could do the same thing).
He did not write 'The Patriots filmed walk-throughs' (that WOULD be hard to prove false). He wrote 'the NFL PENALIZED them for filming walk-throughs' (that's a black and white objective slam-dunk).
There is no grey area about which you write. This is not a subjective issue. It is an objective issue. There is a clear difference between games in public and private walk-throughs. How much clearer can that be?
Huh? That doesn't have anything to do with it. He could be the King of Siam or a Burger Kind fry cook, and it wouldn't make a difference. The spygate story has been extensively reported. The fact that Belichick was fined for violating league rules is well documented. Mixing up what he was fined for videotaping is a minor error, and not grounds for libel.
Oh, and Epic Fail? What are you some l33t 4Chan /b/er who's been in a coma since 2003?
Oh, and Epic Fail? What are you some l33t 4Chan /b/er who's been in a coma since 2003?
Dear [me],
Thank you for emailing us and calling our attention to the error in Len Shapiro's post on The League regarding Bill Belichick and the Jets. We have corrected the mistake in the text and noted it in a corrections box at the top of the post.
Sincerely,
Matt Vita
Sports Editor
The Washington Post
Don't doubt the champs
The defending Super Bowl champion Saints proved Monday in Atlanta that they are ready to defend their title - and the rest of the NFC should take notice.
For Belichick to have cheated, the Pats would have had to have gained a competitive advantage during the game in which the films were taped. That did not happen.
You, like to many other people, think that breaking a rule is cheating. And that is not the case. Just like every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square..
What is cheating then?