News Flash! Court Decision Leaked to Taiwan's Press With Inaccurate Information

  April 21 was “decision day” in my civil lawsuit against the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences (國立臺北護理健康大學). I haven't yet gotten the Taipei District Court's official decision, but apparently the plaintiffs have already taken it upon themselves to distribute their own "press releases" to Taiwan media with select and incorrect information skewed to suit their publicity objectives.

  The China Post, in possibly another sorry example of how certain of Taiwan's media are for sale to anyone willing to pay for media coverage, on April 29 carried a poorly-written story (with some glaring inaccuracies) about the court's decision in my civil lawsuit . I wrote a comment about the story on early Friday morning, including recommending to the paper that they contact me to get their facts straight, but until now the comment has not appeared on their website.

   Over the past more than 3 years, I've written editorials, letters to the editor, and posted comments on related stories on The China Post website and almost none of them have ever made it to print and none have appeared in the paper edition either.

   Quite disturbing indeed when a newspaper stifles news and comments that apparently don't fit their particular world, political or editorial views – or aren’t paid for. It is sad indeed if true that The China Post is among those publications in Taiwan that belongs to the "pay for news publication" system that has developed into yet another black mark on the island’s so-called “free press” and “democracy” in recent years. 
  The most glaring error in their story is the part about "several witnesses...". In fact, 5 witnesses saw nothing happen during any of the ever-changing times the accuser claims she was "touched on the waist". Only one classmate of the accuser claims she saw something happen - also changing the time, place and circumstances multiple times. No proof she was even where claims she was at the time she said she was there, and absolutely NO EVIDENCE ever produced by the nursing university that the accuser was touched, let alone by me.
  Adding to the school's manipulation of the case, the nursing university-controlled gender equity committee excluded the testimony of all 5 witnesses that was favorable to me in their investigation and report! The Taipei district court also ignored this significant fact explained in the legal briefs of my former attorneys. 

  You can read the China Post story here:  Court rejects teacher's claim of lost reputation
  Here are the comments I submitted to the paper's website soon after reading the article: 

"I am the American teacher featured in this poorly written and inaccurate story.
As one example of your inaccurate information, there were not "several" witnesses who saw me touch anyone. Instead, there were 5 witnesses who saw NOTHING happen and 1 so-called 'witness' who changed the time and place multiple times in a perjurous attempt to help the school and the accuser.
If you want to get your facts straight and write a real, well-written story, please contact me at jugger3naut@live.com"

  Here are stories about the decision in the Chinese-language press:

http://news.chinatimes.com/society/130503/132011042800984.html   
http://news.chinatimes.com/realtime/110105/112011042800983.html 
http://news.pchome.com.tw/society/nownews/20110428/index-13039762900178862002.html
http://news.msn.com.tw/news2150633.aspx 
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110428/1/2qlve.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.ctcvn.org/show.aspx?&newsid=5094326&option=society
http://dailynews.sina.com/gb/tw/twlocal/bcc/20110427/23402407064.html

  If any of you find other stories about the decision or any aspect of this case, please send the links to me at my live.com email address and I'll post them.