Re: A la espera de informacion *importante* sobre el caso...
Pues parece que es eso... (Algun moderador puede cambiar el titulo del post please?
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A lo mejor pensabamos en algo mas 'gordo' pero esto no es menos importante...
Date: Friday, September 10, 2004
KAREN FAYE DEMANDS CORRECTION FROM COURT TV
FROM: The Law Offices Of Jerry L. Steering
September 2, 2004
TO:
Henry Schleiff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Art Bell, President and Chief Operating Officer
Courtroom Television Network LLC
600 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Re: Demand for correction of statements pursuant to Cal. Civil Code § 48a for Court TV broadcasts of August 16, 2004 and August 17, 2004 on Catherine Crier Live, by Catherine Crier and Court TV Executive Investigative Editor Diane Dimond.
Gentlemen:
Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 48a, on behalf of my client, Karen Faye, I hereby formally demand that your company, Courtroom Television Network LLC (“Court TV”), retract and correct the statements described below, made during Court TV’s broadcasts of Catherine Crier Live on August 16, 2004 and August 17, 2004, by Catherine Crier and Diane Dimond.
On August 16, 2004, during the broadcast of Catherine Crier Live, Court TV’s Catherine Crier and Diane Dimond discussed a “leaked” report by the California Attorney General’s Office regarding that office’s investigation of entertainer Michael Jackson’s allegations that Mr. Jackson was subjected to unreasonable force during his arrest and booking at the Santa Barbara County Jail on November 20, 2003. In a nutshell, that report, dated August 2, 2004, consisted of a three page letter from California Bureau of Investigation Chief Martin A. Ryan , addressed to Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Anderson, that concluded:
“In summary, this investigation did not uncover verifiable information that Mr. Jackson was injured at the hands of Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department personnel and no criminal misconduct on the part of Sheriff’s personnel was identified. Should additional witnesses or viable information come forward in the future concerning these allegations, CBI will respond.”
The only reference to Karen Faye in the August 2, 2004 letter to Sheriff Anderson was a two sentence paragraph stating:
“Mr. Jackson’s first complaint of pain was reported to his personal makeup artist and hair stylist on December 7, 2003. He explained that the pain was a result of the handcuffing in Santa Barbara.”
The August 2, 2004 letter never mentions Karen Faye by name.
During the August 16, 2004 broadcast of Catherine Crier Live, Diane Dimond stated:
“Court TV has learned exclusively that much time was spent trying to find and question this woman; Karen Faye ; Michael Jackson’s loyal longtime makeup artist. She’s seen here in a recent FOX special. According to confidential sources close to the investigation, informants told the AG’s office it was Faye who actually applied makeup to create the bruise seen here on Jackson’s arm, and that it was all smoke and mirrors.
While that allegation is not addressed specifically by the AG’s office, their final conclusion is that there are no facts, no evidence, to back-up Michael Jackson’s claim.”
In responding to a question about how much the California Attorney General’s investigation of Mr. Jackson’s complaint cost the taxpayers, Diane Dimond commented that the information on cost has not been released, and that:
“. . . it hasn’t even been released whether they [the California Attorney General’s Office / California Bureau of Investigation] got to that makeup artist or not.”
On the following day, August 17, 2004, during Court TV’s broadcast of Catherine Crier Live, Catherine Crier commented on Karen Faye’s response to the above-referenced August 16, 2004 broadcast, stating, among other things, that Karen Faye denied the allegations that she used makeup to create the appearance of a bruise on Michael Jackson’s arm, and that she would be pursuing a retraction of the August 16, 2004 statements . When asked by Catherine Crier what Diane Dimond had to say about that statement by Karen Faye, Diane Dimond replied:
“Well, I haven’t heard that we need to make a retraction, but I’ll tell you exactly what we said yesterday. We didn’t say that Karen Faye put makeup on his arm . . . to make a bruise. We said that the Attorney General’s people, who were investigating Michael Jackson’s . . . ma, uh . . . the police brutality allegations, were trying to find her to talk to her about that. They’d heard that she’d gone to a dinner party and bragged that she had put the makeup on that arm. But as we also said yesterday, as you remember, we don’t think that the investigators ever got to talk to her. Very few people in the Jackson camp cooperated. Not even Michael Jackson would give a statement to the investigators.”
Thereafter during that August 17, 2004 broadcast, Catherine Crier also stated that:
“ . . . nobody from the Jackson camp really was giving statements.”
Diane Dimond then commented that the Attorney General’s Office’s / CBI’s investigation into Mr. Jackson’s complaints looked into the allegation / issue of whether the photograph shown in both broadcasts of Mr. Jackson’s arm, showing redness and bruising, was a fraud , but that the Jackson camp’s refusal to cooperate with that investigation essentially prevented investigation of that issue. As stated by Diane Dimond on August 17, 2004:
“They were looking into that. They were looking into that, into that allegation, but when people don’t cooperate and you can’t get it either way, you know, what are you going to say.”
The above-referenced statement
“According to confidential sources close to the investigation, informants told the AG’s office it was Faye who actually applied makeup to create the bruise seen here on Jackson’s arm, and that it was all smoke and mirrors” is not true, and demand is hereby made that your company correct the broadcast of that statement. Karen Faye had nothing to do with applying makeup to Michael Jackson’s forearm, and to her knowledge, no one did so. In addition, your company’s
“smoke and mirrors” comment has now apparently falsely and maliciously created the impression in the minds of your viewers, and in minds of the public generally, that Karen Faye participated in some sort of scheme to create a false impression that Mr. Jackson had been subjected to unreasonable force by members of the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department.
The above-referenced statements:
“Court TV has learned exclusively that much time was spent trying to find and question this woman; Karen Faye; Michael Jackson’s loyal longtime makeup artist.”, and “We said that the Attorney General’s people, who were investigating Michael Jackson’s . . . ma, uh . . . the police brutality allegations, were trying to find her to talk to her about that. They’d heard that she’d gone to a dinner party and bragged that she had put the makeup on that arm. But as we also said yesterday, as you remember, we don’t think that the investigators ever got to talk to her. Very few people in the Jackson camp cooperated. Not even Michael Jackson would give a statement to the investigators.”, are false, and demand is hereby made that those statements be corrected.
The California Attorney General’s Office’s / California Bureau of Investigation had no difficulty locating, contacting or interviewing Karen Faye, and she did submit to a long and detailed interview by them.
Karen Faye had not
“gone to a dinner party and bragged that she had put the makeup on that arm”.
The false impression of Karen Faye created by these statements was compounded by the above-referenced statements:
“. . . it hasn’t even been released whether they [the California Attorney General’s Office / California Bureau of Investigation] got to that makeup artist or not”, and “we don’t think that the investigators ever got to talk to her.” Demand is also hereby made that your company correct the immediately preceding statement.
Demand is also hereby made that your company correct the following above-referenced statement, as none of the facts shown in that statement are true:
”According to confidential sources close to the investigation, informants told the AG’s office it was Faye who actually applied makeup to create the bruise seen here on Jackson’s arm, and that it was all smoke and mirrors.”
Your company’s broadcasts, above-referenced, have caused Karen Faye to suffer great injury to her reputation, both personally and professionally, great injury to her business and profession, and great mental and emotional pain, distress and anguish. We believe that minimally, that your company acted with a reckless disregard for the truth, and with actual malice toward Karen Faye.
Very truly yours,
Jerry L. Steering
MJJSource
