UPI editor: dissent is like soviet propoganda

[Declan McCullagh]

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. But you know that.

I expect this will be my last message in the thread.

-Declan

At 10:13 PM 12/11/2001 -0800, jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
>CNN edited interviews with people so as to make them appear
>to admit to war crimes commited against civilians during the
>Vietnam war, when the full transcript showed no such
>admissions.  Those people threatened to sue.  CNN then paid
>those people large sums of money in settlement of threatened
>libel suits.  Under America's extremely liberal libel laws,
>CNN would not have done so unless those defamed had a good
>case of malicious libel.