Defamation suit stemming from Alstory Simon, Anthony Porter case should proceed, says appeals court

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I have a problem with this sentence, in a Sun-Times story:

The 2014 documentary “A Murder in the Park” reexamined the case and tried [but failed, apparently] to cast doubt on the motivations of and methods employed by Protess and his students in the Medill Innocence Project.

Tried? What if you dropped “tried to”? Or was the documentary a complete flop? No one entertained doubt after watching it?

The writer hints at something he’d like to say. He should come out with it.

via Chicago Sun-Times

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Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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