A Minnesota jury found that an ABC affiliate station acted with reckless disregard for the truth and awarded a naturopathic healer $1 million in a defamation suit.
The suit hung on the testimony of one of the healer’s clients that the healer had advised her to stop taking an anti-anxiety medication. The jury found the client’s statements about the advise were false and since the station did not verify them, it had acted with disregard for the truth. -db
From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, November 8, 2011, by Chris Healy.