Media Coverage of the Lipstadt Libel Action

Television coverage in the U.S. includes a feature by CNN in its ” CNN
& Time” program aired Sunday January 16, 2000 at 2100
HRS EST. This can be read or heard on these links:

• Transcript
  of CNN’s story about trial.
• Soundtrack
  of the program (about 812 kB).

Coverage for the U.S. and international Jewish Press, e.g., the Jerusalem Post, and the Jewish
Telegraphic Service, includes daily news reports from
Douglas Davis, a London- based correspondent. See too
The Jerusalem Post coverage.

Courtroom trial reports have appeared on a daily basis on the British Broadcasting
Corp. website. Of note is the daily coverage by the
Irish Times by reporter Rachel Donnelly. The British press has covered the trial extensively. The major UK dailies are provided continuing coverage:

• Financial Times
• The Daily
  Telegraph
• The
  Times
• The Sunday
  Times
• The
  Scotsman

In the U.S. the Atlanta
Constitution has covered the trial in depth every day with daily reports by reporter Bert Roughton, Jr. Atlanta is
Lipstadt’s home town where she teaches at Emory
University

Opening day coverage appeared in the Los
Angeles Times, New
York Times, and the Chicago
Tribune all of whom had reporters in the courtroom.
However, none of these papers have yet provided their readers with any follow-up coverage nor has any coverage yet appeared in the Washington Post nor in USA Today as of
January 17, 2000.

If you would like to read coverage in Reuters from
London, use the Yahoo
UK Reuters wire service. We have set up the appropriate search term. Just click to get what coverage there is.

To find Associated Press coverage at Yahoo … search on the term “Lipstadt” without the quote marks within the news pages. To read the most current Associated Press World News coverage about the trial, when there is content, click on this
URL which incorporates the relevant search syntax.

Archive of Media Clips on the Trial: In cooperation with the Nizkor project an archive was set up this week and will be maintained with news clippings about the trial. The clippings archive will be updated as long as the trial is in progress:

• Nizkor:
  Holocaust Denial on Trial Media Clips — Main
  index
• For
  an unacademic discussion of the case
• For
  a page full of links to David Irving

For Action Report’s daily transcript service (the official
court reports) click image on right