Lupul, Phaneuf & his wife threaten to sue TSN

[Jasmine]

“We have sent a letter to TSN demanding that TSN issue a formal apology and pay a significant amount of damages to each of our clients for broadcasting a false and defamatory tweet during their trade deadline show,” Peter A. Gall, lawyer for Phaneuf, Cuthbert and Lupul, said in a statement, adding the trio were making similar demands of Anthony Adragna, the author of the inappropriate tweet used on the broadcast. “It is bad enough that there are people who spend their time using social media to publish such false and malicious stories, but it is made much worse when a reputable media outlet like TSN gives broad circulation and credibility to these false stories by republishing them as TSN did.”

http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/lupul ... dline-day/

[Jasmine]

Re: Lupul, Phaneuf & his wife threaten to sue TSN

Anybody see the actual tweet they are all talking about?

[Jasmine]

Re: Lupul, Phaneuf & his wife threaten to sue TSN

http://www.tsn.ca/statement-from-tsn-1.221413

Statement from TSN

Yesterday when TSN was reporting on the NHL trade deadline, it displayed a scrolling ticker of tweets from the public.

In spite of TSN's protocols to prevent unfounded and inappropriate tweets from making it to air, a false, and inappropriate tweet was allowed to run.

There was no basis for the false allegation made in this tweet.

TSN unreservedly apologizes to Joffrey Lupul, Dion Phaneuf and Elisha Cuthbert and regrets any embarrassment this unfortunate incident has caused to them.

[Alfie11]

Re: Lupul, Phaneuf & his wife threaten to sue TSN

Anybody see the actual tweet they are all talking about?

"I hope the Leafs keep Lupul for the sole reason that he banged Dion's wife"

Something like that

[Alfie11]

Re: Lupul, Phaneuf & his wife threaten to sue TSN

First of all, this is a huge overreaction by the Leaf players. Should TSN have shown the tweet? Absolutely not. But Lupul needs to stop acting like TSN did a segment on this where they had sources saying this was true. It was a fan tweet that got on air. Big deal. Between this and the whole Kessel rant today, the Leafs really need to grow up and stop complaining about every little thing. Perhaps, instead, focus on playing hockey and winning a road game in 2015.

Secondly, this is why I don't use social media. People need to watch what they post. There are a ton of situation where social media can get you in big trouble, and this could be one of them. I see some people post stuff...do they not realize that potential employers will find your social media pages? And like it or not, they will judge you off of it and factor that into their decisions. And what they say is true...what happens on the internet, stays on the internet. Just because you delete it doesn't mean no one will ever see it.

[Jasmine]

Re: Lupul, Phaneuf & his wife threaten to sue TSN

I agree with you there ^^

Anybody see the actual tweet they are all talking about?

"I hope the Leafs keep Lupul for the sole reason that he banged Dion's wife"

Something like that

Oh! :shock: I'm actually surprised this made it on the air. But like you said, its not like they covered this like it was a news and all that...lets move on.

[Matt the Aussie]

Re: Lupul, Phaneuf & his wife threaten to sue TSN

I never did get the appeal of having those Twitter messages at the bottom. They were all either:

a) tweets from hockey analysts, most of whom were already in the studio so therefore could have just made comments on camera
b) tweets from random members of the public - a lot of which were "I hope Phaneuf gets traded #tradecentre" or "I'm a Detroit fan, please no Dion Phaneuf #tradecentre"

[Alfie11]

Re: Lupul, Phaneuf & his wife threaten to sue TSN

Matt, it's a marketing strategy. Every tweet, whether it makes it on the ticker or not, it free advertising on Twitter from TSN to all of the followers.