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Was Sued For Firing Fred Mogul For Using
AP Copy He Shows NYT Used It Too
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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June 4 –Fred Mogul's firing by
the public radio station WNYC
has given rise to a lawsuit.
On June 4 in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
which Inner City Press covers
daily along with the United
Nations from which it is
banned for its reporting,
SAG-AFSTRA filed a lawsuit
against WNYC.
It was
4:54 pm on a Friday when the
case was entered in the
docket, where Inner City Press
found it.
The
complaint says WNYC failed to
provide Mogul with
contractually required
severance payments after
wrongfully discharging Mogul
without cause.
After
Audrey Cooper became editor in
chief of WNYC, Mogul was
fired, allegedly for using AP
copy in his radio reports,
accepted at the time. WNYC
refused to arbitrate, and now
has been sued.
Now Mogul has
filed an amended complaint,
showing for example how the
New York Times (and WBUR and
NRCBoston) used the AP story;
he has also opposed WNYC
filing a sur-reply. Inner City
Press intends to follow this
and other case.
This case
is SAG-AFSTRA, New York Local
v. New York Public Radio,
21-cv-4972 (Unassigned)
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