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==Downfall==

==Downfall==

Enamored of a reckless style of attack writing, Pegler grew careless of the facts after 1950.  His attack on correspondent Quentin Reynolds, where he referred to Reynolds as an 'absentee war correspondent' and said he was a 'war profiteer' and a 'coward' led to a costly slander suit against him and his publishers, as a jury awarded Reynolds $175,000 in damages. Reynolds used far left NYC trial lawyer [[Louis Nizer]] as his attorney. In 1962, Pegler lost his contract with King Features Syndicate, owned by Hearst after he started criticizing Hearst executives. His late writing appeared sporadically in obscure publications, including the [[John Birch Society]]'s ''American Opinion'' and grew increasingly vituperative, violent, and unnoticed by the public that once read him eagerly.

Enamored of a reckless style of attack writing, Pegler grew careless of the facts after 1950.  His attack on correspondent Quentin Reynolds, where he referred to Reynolds as an 'absentee war correspondent' and said he was a '[[war profiteer]]' and a 'coward' led to a costly slander suit against him and his publishers, as a jury awarded Reynolds $175,000 in damages. Reynolds used far left NYC trial lawyer [[Louis Nizer]] as his attorney. In 1962, Pegler lost his contract with King Features Syndicate, owned by Hearst after he started criticizing Hearst executives. His late writing appeared sporadically in obscure publications, including the [[John Birch Society]]'s ''American Opinion'' and grew increasingly vituperative, violent, and unnoticed by the public that once read him eagerly.

==Personal Life==

==Personal Life==