In working with attorneys, I found that there are a lot of the times when they use intimidation, i.e., "You are not as smart as I am, and I'm holding an Ace-if you don't do what I want, I'll sue you".
It looks like they are bullying, blustering, and covering for two other John attorneys.
My brother-in-law, an attorney, calls them "nastygrams".
I have found that such demand letters are usually hollow. They are just scare tactics used to intimidate.
It is just a question of whether the stations actually want to sacrifice a paying full freight advertisement for a tissue of a demand letter.
(kind of like an empty demand letter from a pre-paid legal service.)
If these lawyers were serious they would have filed a complaint or lawysuit. They can't because suing the stations will possibly aggrivate their allies.
Yes well Fascists have no problem when it's one of their own doing the slander etc etc. But let Actual Vets try to get the TRUTH out about the Lurch, and the StormTroopers spring into action.
And the rats are just getting warmed up.
I wonder how well it will work in the middle of a presidential campaign. I sure hope it backfires on them. It seems to me that if it wasn't a stupid move for a politician to sick lawyers on the media, politicians would do it all the time. I guess at worst this tactic is the equivalent of plugging a leak in a dike with your finger.