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Same reason suits usually make such decision -- profits.

I'm sure that profit was a factor. Liability may have been another. Decency might have entered their minds. I don't recall a huge clamor in Salt Lake over this issue.

You had a good point, I never thought of that, as to why they might have pulled the issues in the SLC area. Maybe they got a letter from some lawyer.

If they were sued for defamation, that would mean they were sued for damaging someone's reputation. I would think the worst place to spread a lie would be in the person's own community where the person actually has to function--and if that's the worst, that would mean the defamed person would win higher damages.

In answering the stories the NE put out, seems maybe Ed and Tom would possibly have been only making things worse--stimulating further discussion of it, publishing it MORE. If they did this, seems it could later be said that some of the damage to their reputations had been due to their own actions. That would lessen the damages that they might get.

There might very well be a lawsuit in the works.

There has to be preparation, and that's what some people will not see.