Quoted: Actually, Westmoreland dropped the suit. There was an out of court "agreement" and everything disappeared....
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Oops!!
You’re right – my fuzzy memory has failed me again!!
Arguably though (at the risk of looking like I’m defending my earlier misstatement), for all practical purposes Westmoreland did lose. IIRC (this time!), as the trial progressed it became apparent he had virtually no chance of winning and might actually have to pay CBS’s legal fees.
OTOH, CBS was taking some well-deserved hits over it’s own journalistic misconduct.
Both sides essentially agreed to cut their losses and bail. For all practical purposes, Westmoreland got nothing.
The irony was that CBS’s story was fundamentally sound, but they handled it so dishonestly that it damaged their reputation. Ironically, that might come pretty close to describing what’s happened more recently!!