The website, The Smoking Gun, reports that former NBC anchor Jane Pauley has sued the New York Times, claiming the paper duped her into granting an interview for what was really a drug-company advertising supplement.
The website reports: "In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, the 55-year-old broadcaster charges that she believed that the Times interview was for a news article on mental health issues, but that the story (accompanied by a full-page photo) ran in an October 2005 "special advertising supplement" promoting psychotherapeutic drugs sold by Eli Lilly and other pharmaceutical firms. Pauley, who in September 2004 disclosed her battle with bipolar disorder, alleges that the Times "duped" her into lending her name to its advertising gambit, according to the lawsuit. After going public about her bipolar disorder, the lawsuit notes, Pauley has worked with several mental health advocacy groups, including the National Mental Health Association. Pauley's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from the newspaper and DeWitt Publishing, which helped arrange the advertorial."
Jane is just now starting to feel the pain of public disclosure of her illness. Part of the illness is to strike back at those you do not agree with, or share their point of view, which stimulates law suits. etc. After about 20 year plus of experience Jane will eventually realize that her disorder is hers...and hers alone to sort out. The "fighting" ..lawsuits is just method to cope. Everyone accepts, a physical problem but your far better off having no one know your phyc. problem.to live a normal life. She made a mistake to disclose. She made a mistake like Margaret Truedeua...Both are still trying to recover, and they both think they have to go public to help out other poor souls and share their story...so they think. Who ever is giving them advice is in left field. By the way Jane is the real thing. Her first piece in skywriting...is chilling, because that's what can happen to you. I know.