SmileDirectClub claims NBC made more than 40 false and misleading statements in a February 2020 broadcast of 'NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt'
In 2017 ABC settled a defamation suit from a beef manufacturer over its use of "pink slime" as a descriptor in its newscasts — but not before the multibillion suitafter surviving a First Amendment challenge — and now members of the Beef Products Inc. legal team are taking on NBC on behalf of SmileDirectClub.
SmileDirectClub also alleges NBC was aware of the inaccuracies because the company had sent hundreds of pages of documents about its treatments, made senior officers available for questions and offered to arrange interviews with dentists, orthodontists and patients.
When the story first broke NBC sent a brief statement to multiple outlets saying, "We stand by our reporting and believe this is a meritless claim."— The Academy can't get registration for a new logo that shows a white Oscar statuette inside a simple black triangle. The U.S. Copyright Office in Mayof its refusal to register the logo. The Academy in June 2017 first attempted to register the work for copyright protection and it was initially rejected in June 2018.
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