News: Closing the book: Walmart says they don't have Dez video and never did

[jobberone]

Journalism and sensationalism seem to be one and the same for many.

 

[Nightman]

Dez is also a public figure and would also have to prove actual malice. Very tough to meet that burden.

I thought being a public figure only protected people against satire. Defamation is defamation whether or not someone is a celebrity. Florio wasn't trying to be funny or ironic with his comments.

 

[dstovall5]

Somebody should be sued for slandering, and I hope Dez Bryant gives the media the Marshawn Lynch treatment. Screw them, they've never liked him, and they never will. Sure they may put up a front acting buddy-buddy, but at the first sight of blood (like this incident) they will strike and turn.

This is going to be Dez at the start of the season, lol.

 

[tyke1doe]

he shouldn't have been drug through the mud in the first place, without proof... you never win when you're slandered... and eyes will always be on him...
hopefully he continues to show maturity.

You're right. He shouldn't have. But he was. So you make the most of it. And if you want to look at any positives out of this situation, it is this: Even though people tried to paint Dez in a negative light, that paint didn't dry. So next time, some who are want to cast negativity on Dez will have this new information to counterbalance the negative.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Journalism and sensationalism seem to be one and the same for many.

Indeed.

For most.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

"That's a complete falsehood"

 

[NeonNinja]

Watch out for Florio, Wal-Mart. He disagrees with how you handled this.

 

[Seven]

Watch out for Florio, Wal-Mart. He disagrees with how you handled this.

No kidding.

Next he's gonna claim he found bat **** in his walmart brand choco-puffs...............

 

[big dog cowboy]

The Godfather needs to visit Florio and make him an offer.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I thought being a public figure only protected people against satire. Defamation is defamation whether or not someone is a celebrity. Florio wasn't trying to be funny or ironic with his comments.

I believe that is the majority of it. Florio has some protection in the fact that he would be considered part of the media and they are allowed to report on public figures. The issue for Florio and Terez Owens is that they actually claimed a tape exists, but they have never seen it and no tape has ever come forward. And they stated that the tape has Dez doing something that is extremely detrimental to Dez's character.

Schefter skirted around the issue more and just said that he has been investigating an incident. He didn't say what it was, just that he was investigating an incident involving Dez. I think it's lousy ethics on Schefter's part, but it's not against civil law because he didn't say that something exists, just that he's been investigating. My guess is that ESPN's lawyers told Schefter what to say. Florio, being an attorney, is too dumb and too arrogant to realize that he has put himself in harm's way of a lawsuit.

So it's not so much of reporting something and being wrong as it is how the reporter actually reports the story (and being wrong).





YR

 

[jobberone]

If I have to police one more of these threads you're all in trouble. I have a goat and I'll use it.

 

[Stryker44]

Who has the video then?

 

[Dave_in-NC]

If I have to police one more of these threads you're all in trouble. I have a goat and I'll use it.

Earn your money.

 

[DandyDon1722]

The Godfather needs to visit Florio and make him an offer.

Dog I just read your sig - what a great saying. I thought I had become immune to cliche sounding things like that but when I read it it really resonated with me. You never know how things matter to people. I needed that right now.

Thanks!

 

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Supposedly Schefter has been working on this since September, my question is working on what? How could someone be misled for that long?

It likely means that the people involved with the cellphone video started sending him screenshots in September. They were looking to get paid and noone would so it drug on and on.

 

[jobberone]

Earn your money.

What money?!

Ok, that's it. You guys have been holding out on me.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

What money?!

Ok, that's it. You guys have been holding out on me.

I got plenty of monopoly mod money headed your way.

 

[Zekeats]

Ah......the people of Walmart.

 

[Tenkamenin]

It likely means that the people involved with the cellphone video started sending him screenshots in September. They were looking to get paid and noone would so it drug on and on.

I didn't know there were screenshots, I wonder where they are?

 

[calico]

You know tomorrow TMZ will post the video of Dez lying to the NCAA with a headline confirming the continued existence of the rumor of the wal mart video.