Tag Archives: defamation

Last week, I cheered the Barhoum family onward to consider suing the New York Post for defamation. Well, actually I didn’t suggest they “consider” suing; I hoped they’d sue, because the Post had pasted a photo of their son, Salah, … Continue reading →

You’ve all heard about it by now — how the New York Post, ever enterprising, ever defamatory — front-paged pics of a teenager named Salah Barhoum, “labeling him and a friend ‘Bag Men’ being sought by authorities investigating the Boston … Continue reading →

From Publisher’s Lunch, this interesting case I didn’t know about until now. I haven’t read much Michael Lewis but I did read Moneyball and as an erstwhile baseball fan (until 1957), I was crazy about it. (Coincidentally, Moneyball was handed … Continue reading →