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Article: Media: Polanski versus 'Vanity Fair': the media verdict The glossy that thought it had the stars in its thrall came unstuck last week. So where does the Polanski defeat leave it (apart from pounds 50,000 poorer)? Leading magazine figures tell us
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2005
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Richard Barber
Former editor of OK!
The case made me quite proud of British justice. There's no
correlation in my mind at all between Polanski having slept with an
under-age girl 25 or however many years ago and this libel. I thought
Graydon Carter was quite outrageous standing outside the court and
trying to link this incident with the case. It was quite unconnected.
I'm surprised that it even came to court because it's such a very
particular and horrible case. I'm surprised it ever got into print at
all, in fact. It should have been headed off from the start. Vanity
Fair does print an awful lot of words but this seemed to be very
loose. They get top writers and top people who will talk ...