{"id":13494,"date":"2013-04-19T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=13494"},"modified":"2013-04-19T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:11:08","slug":"a-defamation-lawsuit-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=13494","title":{"rendered":"A defamation lawsuit in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve all heard about it by now \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/hs-track-star-speaks-didn-article-1.1320766\">how the New York Post, ever enterprising, ever defamatory \u2014 front-paged pics of a teenager named Salah Barhoum, &#8220;labeling him and a friend &#8216;Bag Men&#8217; being sought by authorities investigating the Boston Marathon bombings.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So wrote Mark Morales, Bev Ford and Stephen Rex Brown, in the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the lawsuit to drop. Because, as this kid said &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;This guy saw me going to this track meet and he called his friend on the phone, &#8216;Hey, that&#8217;s the guy on the news!&#8217; Then I ran away&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;I need security now to go to school!&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re just athletes. We love running and we love to watch running,&#8221; he said&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Nevertheless, The Post splashed the faces of the youths on its pages and suggested they were suspects. Even after the FBI cleared the pair, Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan said, &#8220;We stand by our story&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;I want the people who did this to apologize. I didn&#8217;t deserve this,&#8221; the teen said. &#8220;Colleges aren&#8217;t going to want me now.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I guess the daring, intrepid, ahead-of-all-the-fake-news Post \u2014 one of Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s rags \u2014 will stand by the lawsuit I hope young Mr. Barhoum&#8217;s family files against them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve all heard about it by now \u2014 how the New York Post, ever enterprising, ever defamatory \u2014 front-paged pics of a teenager named Salah Barhoum, &#8220;labeling him and a friend &#8216;Bag Men&#8217; being sought by authorities investigating the Boston &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=13494\">Continue reading <span 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