McCaw sues AJR reporter

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-mccaw19dec19,1,7280559.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california



Santa Barbara newspaper owner sues over critical article
Story by Chapman University professor is defaming, the lawsuit says. Author's attorney says the suit has little chance.
By Seema Mehta, Times Staff Writer
December 19, 2006

The controversial owner of a Santa Barbara newspaper has sued the author of a magazine article critical of the paper's management, alleging it defamed the paper.

The lawsuit calls the American Journalism Review article by Chapman University journalism professor Susan Paterno "nothing but a biased, false and misleading diatribe" against Ampersand Publishing LLC, the holding company of the paper's billionaire co-publisher Wendy McCaw, which owns the Santa Barbara News-Press. The suit, filed Dec. 12 in Orange County Superior Court, seeks unspecified damages.

 

Anyone have a link to the original article?

 

Wendy McCaw crazy? You stop...

 

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4236

 

That was definitely worth the 15 minutes it took to read. Pretty damning stuff in there about McCaw.

 

hadn't read that before.. what a powerful piece.

 

Thanks, Angola. A fantastic read.

 

I know some of the people involved in this and I can say the the News-Press is one fucked-up organization. At one time, I'd have given my left nut for a job there. Now, not so much.