Crystal Cox, Dan Kennedy, Boston Globe, Anne M. Finucane, Mike , Boston Herald, Elizabeth Ritvo Esq., Jessica Van Sack, Joanna Marinova and KingCast cross paths at the modern journalism summit.

Joanna Marinova's ongoing Defamation case against the Boston Herald and Jessica Van Sack is headed toward trial or settlement as I noted in this journal entry. After we met on this radio show (watch the movies early summation + TOUCH FM 106.1 show) I took her to down to meet her lawyers and I knew it was going to be a real shit-show that only a top-notch, well-heeled firm could handle and I was right. As you may recall WHDH Channel 7 already settled and issued a public apology for rebroadcasting the filthy lie that Ms. Marinova had snuck into a prison and had sex with an inmate while she was investigating prison conditions with State Rep. Gloria Fox. The 1 Feb. 2012 Motions hearing will be the first KingCast courtroom coverage (read the particulars in the comments section), with Mintz Levin stepping in after it became painfully evident that Attorney Ritvo was involved in the Defamation (IMO) in the first place, just look at the questions that she refused to answer in the Interrogatories, such as "Why was [the Herald's pre-publication review by counsel] done?


Meanwhile, as Dan Kennedy noted several days ago at his Media Nation page, Crystal Cox (online journal) has filed for a new trial in her case for reasons that include the fact that the Judge got it wrong on the issue of whether or not she is a journalist. She is clearly a journalist whether the stodgy establishment and purportedly progressive journos agree. I made that point clear in this journal entry, and when I wrote to her today I mentioned the fact that journos like us are always targets because we are truly independent and will say whatever we feel, as long as it is backed up by some facts. Not one person has ever found one thing I have written in 6 years to be materially incorrect, and I aim to keep it that way, thank you. Frankly, I'm just not going to take any shit from anyone at any time, and I don't have to. It helps that I am a lawyer. It also helps that I am grandfathered in as a journalist to some extent because I have edited a large weekly and reported at a large daily, but even if I had not, the law in many states such as New Hampshire, and the FOIA principles 552(a)(4)(A)(ii) of title 5, United States Code, enunciated herein clearly support my position as a journalist. Then there is the Federal Court ruling that "Plaintiff is an African-American journalist...." (Read up here). And in reality I am no more and no less a journalist than my African-American cousin, Mike Wilbon. It's just that I write about the seedy underbelly of American Jurisprudence and he writes about sports... and rather well I might add, but of course I am somewhat biased, LOL.


Anyway, regarding Anne M. Finucane (whom I believe to be a liar) and her plagiarist husband Mike Barnicle, who kept sticking around the Globe for years on end, I am fairly certain that Bank of America loves KingCast and MortgageMovies because they stopped in for a read of Sunday's journal entry this afternoon:


But what do I know. I was only a panelist and NENPA's 2011 Winter Conference on the subjection of "Who is a real journalist?" Watch the movies.