Hmmm. Why is he limiting his analysis to the "initial" coverage?
Exactly. Lots of money involved.
Yeah that makes no sense. IANAL, but I thought generally speaking questions of fact are to be determined at the trial - not by the judge. The judge could toss a case for a lot of reasons, particularly on matters of law. But the question of whether the plaintiff was defamed should be decided by the jury and by the discovery of all the evidence not just the “initial story”. Maybe a lawyer can chime in.
they aren’t- they threw it out supposedly because the post printed an opinion of the indian— which while it turned out to be false, it was’ protected by free speech’ or some such malarky- apparently the judge felt the post didn’t have an obligation to check out whether it was true or not- The post was ‘simply printing an opinion of someone who itnerprete4d things in a way that later turned out to be false-’ -
The judge essentially was implying that wapo didn’t know the story by the indian was false- so wapo is off the hook
So in other words- apparently- according to today’s ruling- the left wing media can concoct any story they like by getting people to falsely claim things against conservatives- slandering them and libeling them- ruining their lives in the process- and all the msm has to do is say they printed opinions- and that’s just A-OK with the courts
Just protecting their Brother’s in Arms, nothing more.
As we all know, to do otherwise drops the hammer on the Post. I’m sure most of us, or at least some of us, do the same thing, we hear about a decision like this. One that, more or less, allows the Left to not be held accountable for their actions and statements, to be able to continue what they’re doing and we see the judges name. We then copy and paste the name in a search engine to find out who nominated the judge.
Lo and behold, when decisions like this come down, it’s one of three(most of the time).... carter, clinton, or the previous occupant of the White House. And, if pushed, in more cases than not, their decisions are overturned. Their bias is on full display and they don’t care. It’s as if they’re daring the people to do something about it.
Perhaps, one day in the not so distant future, something will be done about it, maybe not.
At some point the 3%’ers, Oath Keepers and others that purport to be like them are going to have hoist that black flag and get some work done. It’s coming.
They only plastered their faces all over the place, and everyone knows those honkeys all look alike.
If there was a photo of Sandmann and the Indian attached to the story, then there was defamation. Stupid assed judge.