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Daily News: CBS3 sued for false child sex-abuse report

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FredLeonard

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How KYW TV has fallen.

Philly.com said:
...back on Sept. 29, station anchorman Chris May looked into the teleprompter and reported that a school police supervisor at a city charter school was fired over allegations that he sexually abused a boy....

Now, here's why CBS3's story may cost the station big bucks in a lawsuit filed Friday: (the supervisor) not only was not fired, but he also has not been accused of, nor arrested for, sexually abusing anyone....

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/b...ild_sex-abuse_report.html#5fo7OPA0kAUbiQUY.99
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Apparently, somebody sent out a false press release. Other news organizations made a couple of phone calls to check it out. Not CBS3. But anybody who remembers when "Eyewitness News" was a class act is probably out of the money demos by now.
 
CBS3 and Anchor Chris May in some Trouble

From the Dept. of What Could Be a Really Expensive Mistake comes this tale of a lawsuit filed against CBS Broadcasting and CBS3 news anchor Chris May, who has worked at the station since 2007.

According to a lawsuit (below) filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas, May went on the air on September 29th at 6 p.m. to tell viewers about a supposed sex abuse scandal at a local charter school. Here’s what the suit accuses May of saying:

…a police supervisor at a Philadelphia charter school is fired over allegations of child sexual abuse. Howard Rubin is the suspect. He is accused in the sexual abuse of an underage male student. Rubin worked at the Multi-Cultural Charter School on North Broad Street.

The station allegedly chose as an accompanying graphic a photo of Howard Rubin, emblazoned with the word “Suspect.”

Trouble is: Rubin wasn't fired from his job and he was never accused of sexual abuse. And according to Rubin's attorney, Derek Steenson, CBS never bothered to call Rubin for a comment.

"He got calls from Fox and Action News, and those stations in turn called me and they didn't run the story, because the story was absolutely false," says Steenson. "They couldn't do the story, because they did their homework. But CBS just kind of ran with it."


Read more at http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/...ing-sexual-abuse-suspect/#XStLJSfXBkIxuciU.99
 
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