-- On 12 Dec 2001, at 1:16, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Of course there are other considerations in a settlement, such as avoiding bad publicity -- even if you think you might win a case by arguing you made a mistake but it was not malicious.
Just google through the Tailwind debate. The CNN supporters said that the tape contained clear admissions of war crimes, which of course it did. I just quoted one such seemingly clear, unambiguous admission of enormous war crimes at the start of this thread. The interviewees denied saying what the tape showed them to be saying. Then, under great pressure, CNN released the transcript. The CNN opponents pointed out that the transcript of the material that was edited into the tape did not contain these admissions. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG vwLPU/rJyiCOkPVZmXdWV4gTv42cEm3WgHDYaeaG 4w/137NdrfRTn1IAcef9FvJYsRFgjs++515BhAJ2d