HBO Faces Big Defamation Trial Over ‘Hoax’ Labor Report

The Hollywood Reporter: HBO is bracing for a trial that could deliver one of the biggest black eyes to a national broadcaster’s news operation in quite some time. On April 13, the Time Warner subsidiary is set to answer claims that in 2008, “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” featured a report on child labor that was a “hoax,” full of scenes that in the words of one HBO stringer, were “fabricated” or “dramatized.”