On Friday, the California Court of Appeal issued a ruling in the a libel lawsuit filed against Susan Paterno, director of Chapman University's journalism program, by Wendy McCaw the loony-tunes owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press. The ruling found that McCaw had failed to show any reason why Paterno should be deposed, thus sending the lawsuit back to the trial judge, where Paterno will ask for it to be dismissed.
Paterno had profiled McCaw's bizarre tenure as publisher of the paper for a 200
In these days of horrible news, something great: Chapman University School of Journalism professor Susan Paterno successfully defender herself against a libel and defamation suit filed by Wendy McCaw, the controversial owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press and a rag owner that makes Hearst look like Pulitzer. Even better, per a Santa Barbara blog, McCaw will pay at least part of Paterno's legal fees. Can't wait to get a reaction from Paterno, who has taught two classes of journalism students eve
Citizen McCaw, a documentary on the journalistic war (or war on journalism) in Santa Barbara, is heading down coast to Chapman University, which counts one of this war's correspondents among its faculty.McCaw would be Santa Barbara News-Press owner Wendy McCaw, whose bizarre publishing reign came to light in July 2006, when editor Jerry Roberts
and five of his colleagues quit the paper over co-publisher McCaw's "abandonment of journalistic
ethics," something McCaw has steadfastly denied. What ha
