BURSTBill Lunn, ex-employee of Shreveport’s KTBS, alleges rival network KTAL’s report was ‘character assassination’
A Louisiana news anchor who resigned shortly before a competitor reported that he had been busted for compromising texts by “vigilantes targeting men seeking to prey on underage girls” is pursuing a defamation lawsuit after police determined he had actually arranged to meet someone he believed was a young adult woman – then was violently robbed.
Bill Lunn’s lawsuit asserts that he and his employers at Shreveport’s KTBS news station were in direct competition with their counterparts at KTAL when the latter outlet published a June 2024 report that unduly “ended his career in broadcast journalism” and provided “a rare example of actionable … character assassination”.
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