IMC Reporter Sues Daily Mail

In July 2001, the leaders of the world's richest industrialized nations - known as the G8 - met in Genoa Italy. In the street, as many as a quarter million anti-capitalist protestors opposing the summit clashed with heavily armed police. On Saturday evening, July 21, as Genoa was settling down following the day's events, protestors resting at the Diaz school were subject to a violent raid by Italian riot police. The first victim was British independent media journalist Mark Covell, who suffered a severe beating, broken ribs and a punctured lung. When Covell regained consciousness the following afternoon, two British journalists were in his well-guarded hospital room. The following Monday, the British newspaper The Daily Mail accused Covell of being the mastermind behind what they referred to as "the bloody Genoa riots." No charges were filed against Covell and now he is taking the Daily Mail and Journalist Lucy Morris to Court for defamation of character. As part of the lawsuit, Covell is hoping to draw attention concerns regarding Britain's corporate media. JoAnn Powers reports.

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