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Article: How sorry is the Standard. (libel suit brought by Deepak Chopra against the Weekly Standard)
- Article from:
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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The Weekly Standard's scathing July 1, 1996 piece on Deepak Chopra, best-selling New Age health and spirituality author and speaker, stood out from the conservative political weekly's usual fare, particularly the part about "strong evidence that the guru to the stars has hired a prostitute on numerous occasions."
The magazine's abject apology for the piece one year later also stood out. The half-page note from the editors in the June 30 edition conceded that the cover story contained "false" and misleading" allegations -- that the health guru patronized the prostitute, committed plagiarism, and sold mail-order herbal remedies that contained high levels of ...