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"[http:<references//www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17207 World's 'No. 1 website' goes for-profit]," October 1, 1999, WorldNetDaily.com site, accessed January 29, 2007.>
SW: added info on other WND operations, details of libel lawsuit
'''WorldNetDaily''' (WND) is an internet news and commentary site founded in May 1997 by [[Joseph Farah]], a former editor of several major-market daily newspapers and a founder of the conservative non-profit [[Western Journalism Center]]. The site originated as became a for-profit arm of the Center according to an in October 1, 1999 story at the site, "[.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17207 | work = WorldNetDaily | title = World's 'No. 1 website' goes for-profit]."| accessmonthday = February 24 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>
The WND mission statement describes its role as a watchdog only on government: "WorldNetDaily.com's editorial policy reflects the old-fashioned notion that the principal role of the [[free press]] in a free society is to serve as a watchdog on government - to expose [[corruption]], fraud, waste and abuse wherever and whenever it is found." [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/resources/about_WND.asp]
WND operates the [http://g2.wnd.com/ G2 Bulletin] website, a subscription-only website described as an "intelligence resource" for "insights into geo-political and geo-strategic developments." It also operates a book-publishing division, WND Books, which has published books by [[Michael Savage]], [[Katherine Harris]], [[Joseph Farah]], and [[Jerome Corsi]], among others. In January 2008, WND announced it had acquired its publishing partner, World Ahead Publishing.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59826 | work = WorldNetDaily | title = WND acquires World Ahead Media | accessmonthday = February 24 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>
==Personnel==
Website: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/ <br>
Website: http://www.wnd.com<br>
==Libel lawsuit==
On September 20, 2000, WND published an article<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=4260 | title = Officials say Gore killed drug probe | author = Thompson II, Charles C., and Hays, Tony | work = WorldNetDaily | accessmonthday = February 18 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref> claiming that Clark Jones, a Tennessee car dealer and fund-raiser for then-Vice President [[Al Gore]], had interfered with a criminal investigation, had been a "subject" of a criminal investigation, was listed on law enforcement computers as a "dope dealer," and implied that he had ties to others involved in alleged criminal activity. In 2001, Jones filed a lawsuit<ref>{{cite web | url = http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/graphics/wndlawsuitdocs/jonessuit.pdf | title = Second Amended Complaint | accessmonthday = February 18 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref> against WND; the reporters, Charles C. Thompson II and Tony Hays; the [[Center for Public Integrity]], which had underwritten Thompson and Hays' reporting on the article and related ones<ref>{{cite web | url = http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2007/wndlawsuit.html | title = WorldNetDaily on Trial | author = Krepel, Terry | work = ConWebWatch | accessmonthday = February 18 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>; and various Tennessee publications and broadcasters who he accused of repeating the claim, claiming libel and defamation. The lawsuit had been scheduled to go to trial in March 2008<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59844 | title = Future of reporting scheduled for trial | author = Unruh, Bob | work = WorldNetDaily | accessmonthday = February 18 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref>, but on February 13, 2008, WND announced that a confidential out-of-court settlement had been reached with Jones.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56353 | title = WND settles $165 million libel case | work = WorldNetDaily | accessmonthday = February 18 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref> A settlement statement jointly drafted by all parties in the lawsuit states in part:
<blockquote>"Discovery has revealed to WorldNetDaily.com that no witness verifies the truth of what the witnesses are reported by authors to have stated. Additionally, no document has been discovered that provides any verification that the statements written were true.<br><br>
"Factual discovery in the litigation and response from Freedom of Information Act requests to law enforcement agencies confirm Clark Jones' assertion that his name has never been on law enforcement computers, that he has not been the subject of any criminal investigation nor has he interfered with any investigation as stated in the articles. Discovery has also revealed that the sources named in the publications have stated under oath that statements attributed to them in the articles were either not made by them, were misquoted by the authors, were misconstrued, or the statements were taken out of context."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56353 | title = WND settles $165 million libel case | work = WorldNetDaily | accessmonthday = February 18 | accessyear = 2008}}</ref></blockquote>
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