Comments on: iPod manufacturer alters libel suit against journalists

Following outcry, Foxconn reduces damages sought over reports of unfair working conditions in Chinese plant.

[Penguinisto]

Just a second here...

If the reporters indeed get the facts grossly wrong (and an independent investigation launched by Apple seems to say this to an extent), then they should get slammed with a libel suit.

I don't care where the reporting was done and who done it - if a journalist commits libel, he or she should be made to face the consequences of that libel. It is the concept of libel law that keeps reporters from blatantly making things up and passing it off as "news".

Seriously - if someone 'reported' in a newspaper that the head of Reporters Without Borders was a raging paedophile and cannibal (making it look like it's very legit in the process), don't think for a second that that person wouldn't be on the phone with a lawyer nanoseconds after discovering the libel committed against him.

I'm not sticking up for any oppressive regime here, but just saying that maybe, just maybe, the journalists in question got their facts wrong, and if they did, then they can either prove their allegations or face the appropriate punishments.

/P

[lkrupp]

Rent this movie...

"Absence of Malice" starring Paul Newman and Sally Fields. It's
an old one. You'll get a good idea of how "journalists" think they
can say or publish anything they want without regard to the
truth. They think they can assassinate the character of anyone
they choose and nobody can touch them. Free speech and all
that don't you know.

I can't remember the exact year of the event but a government
official was smeared in the media and charged with some crime.
He was forced to resign and it took several years before he was
brought to trial. He was unanimously acquitted. A reporter asked
him what he planned to do now. He responded with the
question, "Where do I go to get my reputation back?"

The age old question comes to mind when I consider the power
of the news media. "Who watches the watchers?"

[lfonlfonlfon]

How did this turn out?

What was the outcome on this?

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