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WISH Responds To CanaRx

WISH-TV has responded to a defamation lawsuit over its investigation into a Canadian company importing drugs to the United States. The Star reports:

WISH-TV (Channel 8) asked a federal judge this week to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against it by a Canadian pharmacy benefit company that sells to Americans.

CanaRx sued WISH in November saying it was defamed by a broadcast linking the company to sales of counterfeit imported drugs.

The Indianapolis TV station says Indiana's Anti-SLAPP Act protects the media against lawsuits over reports on public issues as long as the reporting was done in good faith and has "a reasonable basis in law and fact."

WISH charges that CanaRx's lawsuit, filed in November, is "attempting to silence media coverage of newsworthy events." At the time its lawsuit was filed, CanaRx had contracts with five Indiana municipalities, including Muncie, to offer mail-order prescription drugs to their employees.

The company said it knew of no reports of "bogus or counterfeit medicine" found in any of millions of prescriptions it's shipped to U.S. customers.

Taking A Break

It has not gone unnoticed that this blog hasn't been updated in a few weeks. Apologies for that, but the blogmistress has been a bit overwhelmed.

Accordingly and officially, the site will be on hiatus until March 3. If you've got something you just can't wait to talk about, feel free to make this your thread.

Thanks for your patience.