By Eva Cahen CNSNews.com Correspondent
Paris (CNSNews.com) - Six years after the world was gripped by media images showing a 12-year-old boy's death during an Israeli-Palestinian gun battle in Gaza, a French state-owned television channel -- accused of spreading misinformation -- is defending its reputation in court.
In a series of lawsuits, France 2 Television is suing Philippe Karsenty, director of an online media watchdog agency, for alleged defamation, after he published an article urging that the network's news director Arlette Chabot and reporter Charles Enderlin "be stripped of their positions immediately."
A public prosecutor here asked the judges to drop the charges against Karsenty, acknowledging that he had defamed Chabot and Enderlin, but declaring that the accusations against them were based on serious and impartial investigations and offered "relatively convincing proof" of fraud.
The France 2 news report, broadcast in September 2000, was seen around the world after the network distributed it internationally -- for free.
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