[Devil_Anse]

NE has a gaggle of lawyers reviewing its articles before publication. They allowed this article to be published.

They also claimed a week or so ago that the Smart case was solved. So, um, like, what are we doing here.....?

The NE has the resources to pay a defamation award, if one should be awarded to someone who sues them. More often, it is a quiet settlement. They consider it a cost of doing business.

It also makes it much easier for them to print untrue things about those 3 people you mentioned b/c those people have sought the limelight and are therefore arguably public figures. Are you saying that everything the National Enquirer has published about any given celebrity has been true? Under the law governing public figures, someone can publish something about them that turns out to be untrue as long as the publisher didn't do it with "reckless disregard for the truth."

The most humorous part of this is the way you pick apart, mistrust, and question every word other publications publish about this case--yet you take the National Enquirer's word on face value, swallowing it whole. That says a lot about you, Palladin (as if we needed more.)

[varina davis]

The most humorous part of this is the way you pick apart, mistrust, and question every word other publications publish about this case--yet you take the National Enquirer's word on face value, swallowing it whole. That says a lot about you, Palladin (as if we needed more.)

I believe it's been posted many times on this thread that the SLC LE is where the NE got their information.

[jandji]

point here is that NE printed information that seems so outrageous and unbelieveable at the same time the smart clan has total access to national media via larry king, paula zahn, twice weekly press conferences, etc.. and the family not only doesn't sue the NE for millions, they don't even deny any of the printed claims.