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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.He won't go away - - he's an NFL Hall of Fame voter and has "announced his retirement" several times over the years.
How he gets away with continually and consciously stating this clear untruth against Robert Kraft's business without sanction is beyond understanding.
Seriously though. What do you want to happen? That he be arrested and charged with misstating a fact, something that has probably happened at least once in every single newspaper article since the beginning of time? If you want a civil suit from BB or the Patriots, that's a cost-benefit analysis that each one of them would have to go through and I would guess both are smart enough to see that there is absolutely nothing to be gained by doing so.
He can't be sued for libel unless the patriots are willing to go into discovery and be probed up and down for exactly what did happen. The standard is a wreckless disregard for the truth or something like that.
I guess they just want it to go away...seems that if people wrote to correct a simple misstatement that he would, if he were a fair minded reporter.
libel is when you defame a person. Calling Belichick a cheater when he did cheat- protects him. You call a guy a murderer for killing his brother and he really killed his brother in law is the same type of thing.
Once again my good friend, the wise and knowledgeable DarrylS, has hit the nail square on the head. I've been saying it for years now. In this media climate, the worst thing you can do is be ignored. So these mediots spout extreme opinions and statements because those are the ones that get everyone all riled up, generating website hits, increasing ad revenue, etc, etc. And like DarrylS, I use Borges as my textbook example of same.I wonder sometimes if the more we complain, the better it is for a media publication.. at least they know someone has read it and cares enough to elicit a response.. and that is what it is all about, see Ron Borges.
The Washington Post smugly prides itself on its journalistic standards and has an Ombudsman on its editorial staff whose job description is: "He brings concerns about accuracy, fairness and ethics to the attention of Post reporters and editors. And he reports back to readers and critiques how certain decisions were made and certain policies came about."
The New York Times case made it very difficult to prove libel when the subject is a public figure (like Bill, or the Pats ownership).
The burden is on the public official or public figure to show that the media printed the allegedly libelous statement with actual malice. Actual malice is basically knowledge of falsity, or reckless disregard for the truthfulness of the statement.
Then on top of all this, prove that you were "damaged" or harmed by the libel to get any significant compensation.
Tough standards.
libel is when you defame a person. Calling Belichick a cheater when he did cheat- protects him. You call a guy a murderer for killing his brother and he really killed his brother in law is the same type of thing.
Take a step back from the ledge, dude.
For it to be libel, there needs to be demonstrable malice and real damages or the provable reasonable expectation of damages. While this guy seems full of malice, considering the amount of exposure the story has already gotten, he's not in any position to tangibly damage Belichick or the Patriots in any way with old gossip.
Once again my good friend, the wise and knowledgeable DarrylS, has hit the nail square on the head. I've been saying it for years now. In this media climate, the worst thing you can do is be ignored. So these mediots spout extreme opinions and statements because those are the ones that get everyone all riled up, generating website hits, increasing ad revenue, etc, etc. And like DarrylS, I use Borges as my textbook example of same.
Everytime someone starts a thread like this, they give the writer of the article or opinion piece exactly what they wanted.
libel is when you defame a person. Calling Belichick a cheater when he did cheat- protects him. You call a guy a murderer for killing his brother and he really killed his brother in law is the same type of thing.