credibility of Jules' reports

Todd Meigs tmeigs at csllp.com
Thu Jul 17 12:14:48 CDT 1997


Haven't we heard all of this before? 

At 10:48 AM 7/17/97 -0500, Jules Siegel wrote:
>At 08:11 AM 07/17/97 -0800, millison at online-journalist.com (Doug Millison)
>wrote:
>
>>This statement about Pynchon, and  others which you attribute to Chrissie
>or for which you are the sole source, acquire credibility only when they are
>corroborated by another credible source.
>
>This isn't a trial. I'm not lying and Chrissie isn't lying. The statements
>acquire credibility because of my unchallenged credibility as a writer and
>reporter during more than forty years of publication beginning with The New
>York Times when I was still in college.
>
>If you are so convinced that this is wrong, I urge you to do your homework
>and see if you can find a single published attack on my credibility. It's
>not up to me to prove my credibility. It's up to you to disprove it. You
>aren't disproving anything. All you are doing is trying to raise doubts that
>have yet to receive support from anyone else except Peter Giordano.
>
>>This is especially true when dealing with negative, defamatory reports.
>
>None of this material is negative or defamatory. It's simply human.
>
>>Yr paranoid prosecutor,
>
>You said it. Now go take your case to court or to some publication and stop
>making the same boring unsupported theoretical charges over and over again
>every time my name is mentioned. We get your message. You think I'm not a
>credible source and neither is Chrissie.
>
>Next point?
>
>
>--Jules Siegel Apdo 1764 Cancun QR 77501
>http://www.yucatanweb.com/siegel/jsiegel.htm
>
>
>



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