[Marxism] Marxmailer threatened by knucklehead dissertation student

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/student-sues-academics-over-trash-thesis-remarks-20090619-cnki.html

Student sues academics over 'trash' thesis remarks
June 19, 2009 - 3:33PM

A PhD student is suing two senior academics for defamation after they 
branded his TV comedy about people with disabilities as "amoral trash".

Michael Noonan is seeking $250,000 in damages from Gary MacLennan and 
John Hookham, of Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) film and 
television school, over an article they wrote in The Australian 
newspaper in April 2007.

The article was about a TV comedy featuring two people with intellectual 
disabilities, which Mr Noonan had written as part of his thesis, 
Laughing at the Disabled: Creating Comedy that Confronts, Offends and 
Entertains.

The academics took offence to the comedy, branding it as "amoral trash" 
that exploited people with disabilities.

Mr Noonan, who was one year into his three-year PhD at QUT when he 
created the show, is seeking $250,000 compensation for the distress and 
embarrassment caused by remarks made in the article, which he claims 
implied he was "ignorant", "unethical" and "repugnant".


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