21h 46min, dec 20, 2024 y - NYT reporter 'Twohey' Requests Responses to Article Claims (14 Hour Notice)

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"1. At 9:46 p.m. (EST) on Friday, December 20, 2024, NYT reporter Megan Twohey(“Twohey”) requested Plaintiffs’ response to an imminent 4,000-word bombshell story concerning their alleged orchestration of a smear campaign targeting Blake Lively (“Lively”), purportedly in response to Lively’s disclosure of concerns about the working environment on the set of It Ends WithUs (the “Film”).

2. The Film’s production company, Wayfarer, its principals, Baldoni and Heath, and its public relations representatives, Nathan and Abel, were asked to provide “on-the-record comment”and to notify the Times of any “inaccuracies” by noon (EST) the next day, on December 21, 2024—a mere 14 hours overnight. Plaintiffs’ representative promptly denied Lively’s accusations as reported by the Times and criticized both Lively and the Times’ reliance on “cherry-picked” and altered communications stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced to mislead.

3. Despite its claim to have “reviewed these along with other documents[,]” the Times relied almost entirely on Lively’s unverified and self-serving narrative, lifting it nearly verbatim while disregarding an abundance of evidence that contradicted her claims and exposed her true motives. But the Times did not care. Given the breadth of the Article and the coordinated “drop,” it is readily apparent that the Times had been quietly working in concert with Lively’s team for weeks or months..."
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