Gar Lipow
On 11/17/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Guardian (London) - November 17, 2005
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> Corrections and clarifications
> The Guardian and Noam Chomsky
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It was a smear job and they only backed down because they not only got called, on it, but got on it called publicly enough with enough fuss and pressure that it was not worth the trouble keep it up. It still shows a difference from U.S. media; people in hell will get ice water before any facet of the U.S. media backs down from their slanders of Noam over the years.
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Well, the American law of defamation is much more forbidding to plaintiffs than English law. I suspect that the threat of litigation may have had something to do to with The Guardian's effusive apology.