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Finally, a strategy for Broadcasters to compete with New Media–lawyers! This is a story of a TV station threatening a bartending blogger over negative and salacious items he posted about the station’s personalities. You might thing the Manager of a News operation wouldn’t encourage others to sue any time they were offended by uh, reporting or editorializing on a subject. Duh.

In any event, to avoid future legal action I will no longer refer to Channel 13’s Dave Calabro as “smoking hot.”

clipped from www.styleweekly.com

Blogger Raises Ire of Channel 6

A 25-year-old Richmond blogger known for riffing on nightlife, his sexcapades, literary pursuits and local media personalities has been threatened with a defamation suit.

In an e-mail to blogger Jack Lauterback last week, CBS 6 general manager Peter Maroney demands that he “immediately remove the false, damaging and salacious statements” on his blog related to the station’s newscasters, or face legal action.

Maroney’s threat stems from a Sept. 12 post, wherein Lauterback calls CBS 6 anchor and reporter Lee Mahaffey “smoking-hot” and confesses he hopes to one day coerce her “into making some bad decisions.”

In a June 19 post, Lauterback alleges seeing CBS 6 weekend anchor Ric Young at a restaurant with his brother. Lauterback describes for readers a night in which his friends mistook Young for Channel 8 anchor Juan Conde. He also writes of the waitress’ complaints about the size of the tip Young leaves.

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