Monday, September 20, 2010

Atwood Could Have Sued Fox News North, Didn't

From her Year of the Flood blog:

...although I had grounds for a lawsuit or two of my own, I decided not to go down that road at present — who can afford the time?

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After consulting with the GP, I decided to give the poor SUN a chance – after all, it would be mean of me and a seasonal vegetable to crush such a weak media conglomerate, with a mere 10.5 million (what are they? subscribers?) and a bazillion dollars. They offered me 600 words.

"I decided not to go down that road at present" means she still might. Margaret, darling, sue them and I'll set up a tip jar. I can throw in a $5 to start with. Maybe more later, depending on the lotto.

5 comments:

ridenrain said...

" and ten being singled out"

Famous writtter huh?

Clearly lawsuits are from the South Left are the new "American style" politics.

double nickel said...

rottenrain...please get some help for your mental health issues. Seriously.

Gene Rayburn said...

Writter huh Armpitstain.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Too bad you wasted yours.

Loraine Lamontagne said...

ridenrain - We may not know which of the egg or the checken came first, but in the case of defamation we know what comes first.

Tof KW said...

ridofbrain, I guess I have to spell it out since a lobotomy is a prerequisite for being a Harperbot. What if I wrote a newspaper article stating falsely that you were a Nazi collaborator? Free speech ends where slander begins – always has. And Ezra deserves as many nice, fat lawsuits against him as possible for being so stupid.