Using a press release to get even?

Question

I have been having an ongoing battle with a company for a year and a half. Basically they have decided it's finished and I should give up. They know I don't have tens of thousands of dollars to take them to court.

So can I use a press release to tell my side of the story? Is this something that is done?

It doesn't matter for now whether you guess my story is newsworthy or not. Do people who have suffered injustice and cannot afford legal help, do they use press releases to get their side of the story out and perhaps get back at the company, get a little revenge and get it out inot the public sphere how that company might have behaved wrongly?

lakelady · Answer

If you can find press. Increasingly the press is owned by corporations, politicians and special interest groups. Edward Snowden once would have been hailed a hero of the truth. Now he's been harassed to Russia by U S media. There are some papers left, some independents. Start there with the city desk.

Anonym · Answer

If you don't have the money to fight them, you don't have the money to fight and lose the defamation case they would almost certainly bring against you.

It does not matter that what you say might actually be true, they know the onus would be on you to prove it. They can wind up what legal costs they like, because if you lose, and you will, you pay their costs.

Indeed, if their lawyer has any sense, he will seek an order that you pay their costs into court, before you even get started. That would kill you dead in the water.

Some times you just have to suck it up!

Anonym · Answer

Sometimes they do.  It depends on what organization you're involved with, or were involved with.

John · Answer

Be careful.  Make sure it is true.

Using a press release to get even?

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