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More Fun and Games with Project Censored

Submitted June 18, 2007 - 11:46 pm by Al Giordano
Peter Phillips of Project Censored responds to my comment, above:

Dear Al,

Project Censored give briefs on what we call "real news" stories and publishes these links to numerous websites every month.   What you originally said was that you didn't want us to list you work at all.

If you don't want to be in our book, OK that is fine.

But your name calling and slandering of Dan Simon is not OK.

Regretfully,

Peter Phillips

Dear Peter,

You traffic in "judging" journalism, yet you don't seem to know the definition of "slander" (defamatory speech - which is to say untrue - that is spoken orally) as opposed to "libel" (defamatory speech that is written). Since everything I have had to say has been written it can't possibly be "slander." Don't you know the difference? And because it is my honest and true opinion, it is not "libel" (the proper word for written defamation) either.

If Mr. Simon feels he has been libeled, he has the resources (in part thanks to you) to take legal action. But his lawyers will tell him that truth is an ironclad defense. The truth is a bitch, eh?

(And you ought to know: falsely accusing someone of a crime in writing - in this case, "slander" - is itself a form of libel: but not to worry, I have bigger fish to fry.)

On the other hand, I have perhaps opened myself to a lawsuit from the douche bag manufacturers of America, by comparing their product to that social parasite, Mr. Simon.

What puzzles me most is your claim that: "What you originally said was that you didn't want us to list you work at all." That's funny! And demonstrably false. There is a complete written archive of everything that I have written on the matter, both on Narco News and in your email box.

I'll tell you what! I'll give you $100 (from my pocket, that's, like, $1,000 from yours, or more, as a percentage of wealth and income) if you can show me anything I've written that requests anything about not wanting you to "list" my work at all. (I've not asked you not to list it, nor have I asked you to list it; I simply said that I object to my work being published in a book by the commercial publisher Seven Stories and have rejected the "award" that seeks to impose that association upon me.)

In that, you've gone way outside of the available facts and invented a fish story out of whole cloth. And it's evident to all that read this exchange.

But if you really want to fight, keep falsely accusing me of a crime. And to think: how fast you slide from declaring my work exemplary and "award" winning to declaring it "slander." That might also tend to make people wonder about what the deal is with your project.

Honestly,

Al Giordano

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