Lawsuit adds spice to repetitive TV news about shootings, car wrecks and house fires we’ve become accustomed to

If courtroom drama is your thing, then clear your calendar and plan to spend a few days in 1st Judicial District Court up in Caddo Parish (if, indeed, the matter ever goes to trial, which I doubt) to drop in on Case No. 657648A, William Lunn v. Nexstar Media dba KTAL, Daniel and Jacquelyn Jovic.

It’s not a murder trial, armed robbery or even a felony, for that matter – just a good old defamation of character libel type of case that, had the results not ended a bright career in television news, would be on a comedic level of the movie ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY.

I mean, the entire episode is almost a parody of what local television news has become: a burlesque show of local crime reports peppered by the exponentially-growing number of loud, obnoxious personal injury attorney ads…

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