How much compensation would make up for the character assassination he suffered at the hands of the press?

[sandyRoe]

http://uk.news.yahoo....newpaper-dba1618.html
I hope he gets millions.

[MickeyTheBrick]

Jack, the amount a paper can charge for advertising is directly related to how many copies it sells. If one newspaper sells 10,000 copies a day and another sells 1m copies a day, then the latter is going to charge a lot more to advertisers. And, by the way, again, I'm not suggesting finding out how much money a particular article made.

[starone]

I remember feeling very sorry for him being involved like that just because he owned the property she lived in..

[jackthehat]

That's a nonsense, too.
The police have a duty to question anyone 'of interest'. That people will be interviewed 'under caution' during a high-profile murder investigation is only natural.
The feeding-frenzy that erupted in the media after it was discovered that CJ had been interviewed can only be laid at their own door !

[MickeyTheBrick]

Sorry, Sqad, I understand the confusion, now. It's how I worded it. I meant that even if everybody who had bought the paper that day had not done so because of the article, I would double the profits for that day anyway.

[NOX]

I personally don't think he is entitled to any financial compenation, but I do think he is entitled to a front page exoneration. He was at the time arrested on suspicion of murder, and the papers reported that accordingly. It's a fact of life that if you are arrested rightly or wrongly for murder then you will be in the public eye which is only right as it may help with murder investigation. If the newspapers printed any baseless allegations as facts then some financial recompense is due but I don't recall them doing that at all.

[237SJ]

I doubt whether it would be possible to quantity profit from a story. There might be a spike in the profits of the newspapers that week but taking away profit is hardly a punishment. They need to suffer a loss, not just a loss of profit.
The police were hasty in naming him but it wasn`t the police that hyped it all up, it was the media. People are arrested and released all the time in the name of every day enquiries but you don`t hear about most of them. Every now and again the papers decide to make a big `thing` of it a la Colin Stagg and someone`s life is ruined. I hope he hammers them.

[anneasquith]

i truth we all read the papers and watched the tv coverage. the media didnt pick his name out of a hat, he was a suspect, then released. did the media actually break the law, if they did not he wont get a penny.. imo

[Sqad]

Yes, I agree with JTH and starbuck...........one can hardly blame the press for printing the "news" as stimulated by police action, however inaccurate it turns out to be.

[jackthehat]

Had the press stuck to the basics about CJ, I too would agree that he was due no compensation.
However, they made him a subject of ridicule; they sought out people to give quotes about his 'odd-ball' nature; and strange behaviour and invited the readership to infer his guilt from his 'creepiness'.
Well beyond the bounds of journalistic 'probity'.

[ummmm]

None....

He shouldn't have put himself in the picture. He said one thing to the neighbours and another thing to the police.

[sandyRoe]

How do we know he said one thing to the neighbours and another to the police? Did we read it in the press?