Sam and her attorney should have a nice sit down and discuss libel and get her checkbook out.
The only parts of barstool that aren't horrible are pardon my take and mickstape, the rest of the personalities there are terrible people
What she did was libel, not really a debate on it. He did not write those articles it is pretty simple.lol, if she needs her checkbook for libel based on that, then Portnoy better flee the country
What she did was libel, not really a debate on it. He did not write those articles it is pretty simple.
negligence is required, pretty negligent to screen shot articles and not look at the author and then stand by itIt's not libel without intent. That she later admitted she was wrong would probably only cement her case that it was a mistake and not intentional.
It's not assault and we should be careful about turning words into criminality. No reasonable person would perceive an imminent threat of harm. There is ample grounds for recourse in the law without resorting to every offensive thing spoken being a crime. I suspect Ponder will be getting a nice big check through civil recourse.Why isn't this seen as an assault of women? What a bunch of hypocrites at ESPN and the media.
It's not assault and we should be careful about turning words into criminality. No reasonable person would perceive an imminent threat of harm. There is ample grounds for recourse in the law without resorting to every offensive thing spoken being a crime. I suspect Ponder will be getting a nice big check through civil recourse.
I try very hard to live by the "Treat others the way you want to be treated" motto...
That being said, it's very tiresome that now everyone wants to be outraged and offended by everything, all the time.
It's like a race to be the MOST outraged and offended. Who ever is the most outraged and offended wins. And then after that, a person who said something stupid (SAID, not DID), that ultimately did no real damage other than offending the "offendee", has his or her life really screwed up (lost jobs, internet bullying, etc...).
It's getting out of hand.
The good thing for Katz and ESPN is that someone else will find something to be outraged with tomorrow and this story will be a distance memory come next week.I mean, it's not out of line for Samantha Ponder to be pissed that her company is linking arms with a company whose founder repeatedly called her some pretty bad stuff and made really sexist remarks towards her. Dan Katz isn't like that, though, and now he'll have to pay the consequences because unless that show is REALLY good, there's no way that ESPN will see the benefit to a show in the 1 am timeslot causing so much drama
Yeah I mean, if Jemelle Hill can't even say what she says on Twitter, how are they going to defend the stuff that comes out of BarStool, specifically the ones hosting the show on ESPN. That looks prime for a discrimination suit right there. Barstool is funny every once and a while but they say some really vile stuff that I don't condone but I definitely condone by reading it.
Strange ... indeedWeird you managed to quote me instead of SubZero, heh.