DrJazzz said:
Red Jezza
Ellen Mariani is a 9-11 widow who is suing George Bush for her husband's death. That in itself is extremely newsworthy, no? Yet, despite sending out over 3500 press releases, not a single newspaper worldwide has mentioned her! Perhaps you could explain why not?
<sigh>
1. in a culture and society as legalistic as the USA, there are a
huge amounts of lawsuits going on at any one time - it's how business etc gets done.
2. the chances of that lawsuit - RICO or no - making the jump from file No. P/741369/RT etc (or whatever) to Dubya testifying under oath (or, more importantly, Mariani doing so) are virtually zero, even more so than most private citizen's case. There is also no US equivalent of the concept of the 'vexatious litigant' and it is harder for judges to simply chuck a case out on the spot, IIRC.
3. the demand for news space in the US press is always far greater than the space available, so there is a constant assessment, a hard call, of what is and isn't a story.
therefore, the newsworthiness of ONE lawsuit that is NOWHERE near conclusion, in a country swimming of them, and which seems to me to be unaccompanied by a rousing chorus of support from the survivors or the bereaved of the other 3000+ odd victims, can reasonably be deemed to be slight.
sorry - that ain't a story, or not enough of one until SHE does what you've not done - slapped down hard evidence.
in the US,
anyone can sue anyone...
and print ain't the only media - it is, for instance on GovExec.com - a leading, reputable b2b site for state/federal govt organisations and personnel.
put in context; that's like getting on Parly Journal's website, or
The House , or
municipal Journal .
Interesting that she's suing, but
nowhere near enough yet