Politics & Government

WWE Threatens to Sue Journal Inquirer's Managing Editor

World Wrestling Entertainment claims its product is family entertainment, not "pornography" or "raunch."

Hugh McQuaid had an interesting piece Friday on CTNewsJunkie.com about World Wrestling Entertainment threatening to sue the Journal Inquirer's managing editor, Chris Powell, over comments he made in a Monday editorial that characterized U.S. Senate Candidate Linda McMahon as having amassed her fortune from "the business of violence, pornography, and general raunch."

Powell brushed off the threat and accompanying request for a retraction, but McMahon's campaign took aim at Democratic candidate Susan Bysiewicz for using much the same language in an appearance on NPR.

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