Oprah Winfrey Is Found Not Guilty

"Free speech not only lives, it rocks," a beaming Oprah Winfrey said Thursday after jurors rejected a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit by Texas cattlemen. The Amarillo, Texas, jury decided the television talk show host did not maliciously harm the U.S. beef industry in a 1996 program on mad cow disease.

Plaintiffs who say the show caused a cattle market plunge that caused them to lose $11 million said they planned to appeal, and were pleased if the trial caused television talk shows to become more "responsible."

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