Yesterday and Tomorrow: Rich and larger than life look to the High Court for lifelines
Abe Saffron complained that the SMH had dubbed him Mr Sin and suggested he had an unsavoury reputation. Clive Evatt, for Saffron, presented an interesting analogy by drawing on Alexander Pushkin's novel Eugene Onegin, in which a humorous remark by Onegin led to a duel in which Mr Lenski dies. The jury looked puzzled.
The defamation industry has never looked more protracted, technical and therefore buoyant.
· Defamation driven megalomaniacs
It's the kind of thing that makes your stomach sink. CBS once was the gold standard among network news divisions and '60 Minutes' was the gold standard among television news programs. I am stunned that they've done this.
[via To lose your reputation, as CBS now has done]
Jozef, I am in no position to preach, coming from an Australia that positively slavers to do its American master's bidding. Nevertheless, bear it in mind that you are inviting me to leave the country where I was born to take up residence in the belly of the Great Satan, and that I might have reservations about doing so...
Let us not make ourselves miserable talking about politics. i>
· NY Books [ via Chosen One]