The Sued News: a pushback

[rowland]

Perhaps overdue. The news can lie, but they can’t always get away with it. Latest example:

Why Devin Nunes’s Phone Logs Aren’t A Smoking Gun

On Tuesday, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., filed suit against CNN for defamation after the airport staple ran a hit piece that falsely reported that the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee met with a former Ukrainian prosecutor in Vienna last December to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.

Bonus: Schiff violating privacy for his witch hunt.

Defamation Law Made Simple

Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of Virginia Sues CBS for Defamation, Seeking $400...

Joe Arpaio files $300M defamation suit against 3 news organizations

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=504723649

They can hold accountable anybody who has communicated the defamatory statement to anybody else. That includes the person who originated the defamatory statement, but under something called the republication rule, it also includes anybody who repeated the defamatory statement. Now simply retweeting a defamatory statement is probably not going to be enough to qualify for republication, but passing on information that you heard from somebody else certainly is republication…

The reason we have freedom of expression is not because truth will always win, but because without freedom of expression, truth has no chance of winning whatsoever.

[rowland]

Yeah. That Bloomberg.

Fake news report costs Bloomberg $7.6m in fines

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Judge to allow portion of Nick Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post to...

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The New York Times on Trial

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4 News Orgs File Motion To Toss Lawsuits From Nick Sandmann. They Were All...