Marianas Variety
Variety prints an average of 24-40 pages daily with full color capability and is distributed in the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia.On October 25, Torres ran a paid political advertisement in Variety which reprinted the full letter and added, "I don’t hide behind legislative shield to tell LIES.[4] Their argument was based largely upon Younis's personal dislike of Tan, who was a partial owner of a rival newspaper, the Saipan Tribune, and upon the Variety's failure to investigate Torres's claims further than the original article before printing the advertisements.The court ruled that Younis's dislike for Tan was immaterial to the case, as it had no bearing on the determination of actual malice, and that the newspaper did not have to investigate the truthfulness of the advertisements absent serious doubts regarding them.The court also rejected the claim that Tan's financial interest in the Tribune played into Variety's actions, noting that there was no evidence of any such profiteering scheme.