[DOWNLOAD] "Michigan United Conservation Clubs v. Cbs News" by Sixth Circuit. United States Court Of Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Michigan United Conservation Clubs v. Cbs News
- Author : Sixth Circuit. United States Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 30, 1981
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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Michigan United Conservation Clubs, plaintiff below, appeals an order granting summary judgment for CBS News, defendant below. M.U.C.C. is a non-profit Michigan corporation which promotes natural resource conservation and environmental protection. Its membership consists primarily of game hunters. M.U.C.C. brought this action against CBS News, alleging that two documentary films, The Guns of Autumn and its sequel Echoes of the Guns of Autumn, defamed M.U.C.C. and all Michigan hunters. These films examine sports game hunting with a critical eye. CBS broadcast them on national television on September 5 and 28, 1975, respectively. In substance, M.U.C.C. alleged that CBS tricked M.U.C.C.'s executive director, Thomas L. Washington, into cooperating with the CBS film crews by promising that the documentary would treat hunting favorably, when in fact it treated hunting unfavorably. In particular, M.U.C.C. objected to CBS's secret collaboration with Cleveland Armory, and to its filming of a bear hunt at a garbage dump. M.U.C.C. claimed that CBS gave the public a negative false impression of American hunters by emphasizing the slaughter rather than the spirit of the hunt.