The two sides in the ongoing Paula Deen lawsuit have asked for a judge to dismiss it, apparently after some sort of settlement. From the AP’s Sides agree to drop Paula Deen discrimination suit: The lawsuit would be dismissed “with…
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WTOC: Paula Deen lawsuit to be dismissed after settlement
A couple of weeks ago, WTOC reported a settlement in the lawsuit filed by Lisa Jackson against Paula Deen, her brother Bubba Hiers, and other parties. But in a matter of hours, the plaintiff’s attorney who was the source of…
Updated: Lawyer retracts statement, WTOC pulls back from report that Deen lawsuit settled
From Don Logana at WTOC, Settlement reached in Paula Deen lawsuit [Update: see further statement from WTOC below]: Matt Billips, the attorney for the plaintiff Lisa Jackson, said paperwork will be filed later Monday. A court threw out racial aspect…
NYT talks to a longtime cook for Paula Deen
A really interesting piece by Kim Severson (excellent writer) in today’s New York Times: Paula Deen’s Cook Tells of Slights, Steeped in History. Severson obviously spent hours trying to understand the world of Dora Charles, “the queen of Deen kitchens”…
A few thoughts on the latest Paula Deen news and Bubba Hiers’ deposition
In my original post about the Paula Deen controversy, I wrote: Even though we could find plenty of 66-year old Southerners who never used the N-word and many of Deen’s age who joined civil rights protests as early as the…
So why wasn’t there already a new contract with the Food Network?
I said a couple of days that I probably wouldn’t post again anytime soon about the Paula Deen controversies, but there was one detail that had been nagging at me. Why, a mere week from the expiration of the current…
A quick roundup of major stories following the Paula Deen controversy
I hope this will be my last post for awhile about the recent Paula Deen controversy. But today it seems worthwhile to note a few of the journalistic takes on the evolving controversy. Here I’m just going to cite three…
Food Network will not renew Paula Deen’s contract
Given the media storm set off by the public release of Paula Deen’s deposition last month in a lawsuit brought by a former employee of Uncle Bubba’s, this is not surprising news: BREAKING: Food Network says it won't renew Paula…
A few thoughts on the Paula Deen controversy (transcript embedded)
I certainly wasn’t the first journalist to write about Paula Deen and The Lady & Sons, but I think I was the first to write about the ambitious move from the small location on Congress Street to the much larger…