` :::::::You asserted that it was not ``defamation.``  In English common lawfor well over a century at least, as in the US, defamation applies not only to individual persons but also to corporate persons.  See, e.g., cases supporting the principle that companies and other legal persons may sue in libel in the same manner as natural persons include South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd. v. North Eastern News Ass'n Ltd., [1894 1 Q.B. 133, 138-39, and Bognor Regis U.D.C. v. Campion, [1972] 2 Q.B. 169, 176-77.]  So I'm still perplexed.  This was defamation of the worst sort, under both US and English legal traditions.  `