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Conservative Network Files $10M Defamation Lawsuit Against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
Law and Crime ^ | September 9th, 2019 | Colin Kalmbacher

Posted on 09/09/2019 1:52:32 PM PDT by Rebelbase

Edited on 09/09/2019 2:03:38 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The owner of right-leaning cable news channel One America News Network (OANN) has filed a defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow and others claiming that the 46-year-old liberal commentator “maliciously and recklessly” smeared the network as a Russian state propaganda outlet.

In a press release obtained by Law&Crime, attorneys for OANN’s owner Herrring Networks, Inc. said they filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Maddow, Comcast Corporation, NBC Universal and MSNBC in a California federal court.

The lawsuit tracks a series of longstanding grievances between OANN and Comcast.

According to the press release, the complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry the right-wing network because OANN “counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC.” One week after that, OANN’s founder Charles Herring sent an open email to Comcast deriding their alleged “anti-competitive censorship.”

Maddow apparently responded in turn, defending her own network’s owners by blasting OANN and telling her own audience the right-wing network “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.”


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To: Rebelbase

Good. For far too long the media has had protections you and I don’t get.


21 posted on 09/09/2019 3:55:53 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: TLI

My dentist gets it in Canada. Still can’t figure out how he does it.


22 posted on 09/09/2019 3:56:45 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: jagusafr

Are you sure you can get it on Apple TV or Rokku? If so, I’m going out to get one (the kids want Disney Plus).


23 posted on 09/09/2019 3:57:24 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: jagusafr

Sorry answered my own question:

https://www.oann.com/appletv/

Looks like I need 4th generation. Will start saving.


24 posted on 09/09/2019 3:59:11 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Rebelbase

Good. More of this. I doubt it will do anything to change their attitudes but they should *NOT* be allowed to wantonly tell untruths.


25 posted on 09/09/2019 4:12:47 PM PDT by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: ConservativeMind

Which service on roku has OANN?


26 posted on 09/09/2019 4:16:00 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: digger48
False statements of fact are

“If” that statement was intended to defame!

Which this statement was!

With out a doubt.

27 posted on 09/09/2019 4:23:09 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: American in Israel
Which service on roku has OANN?

OANN is the service. ROKU is the transport device. I've had OANN for years now, $4.99 a month. You can also stream Netflix, Amazon Prime, HULU etc etc..., separate charges apply.

28 posted on 09/09/2019 4:31:08 PM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Is it time Claire?)
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To: ifinnegan

$10M and the right to exploit it in marketing material and coverage? Hell yeah.

“We’re the network that MSNBC and Rachel Maddow lied about! Check out our 10pm news roundup!”

“MSNBC LIES and we have the proof!”

etc., etc.


29 posted on 09/09/2019 4:35:28 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

Thank you for your help.


30 posted on 09/09/2019 4:49:37 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: gibsonguy

Be a shame if somebody busted the teeth out of her lying face...


31 posted on 09/09/2019 5:27:06 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: American in Israel

It is the OANN app you find when you use the Search option.

It’s their official channel, only.


32 posted on 09/09/2019 6:06:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Rebelbase

OANN bump for later....


33 posted on 09/09/2019 6:08:31 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: TLI

Does it come through the same cable that I get Comcast through?

Or is it a streaming thingie?


34 posted on 09/09/2019 7:16:28 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: rhombus10

We get it on Directv. My sister gets it, and I think she’s on U-verse.


35 posted on 09/09/2019 7:20:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." A. Lincoln)
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To: gibsonguy

Hope OANN wins.

My understanding of the issue is that OANN bought stories from a freelance guy.
Freelance guy also pitched and sold his own story ideas to *other* news outlets—including a Russian one called Sputnik.

Big whoop.
It’s what freelancers do. The flip side being, the news outlets have freelancers stationed all over the world, and pay for their *local, independent* perspectives on events.

Rachel Maddow knows this.

But Maddow then accused OANN on the air of publishing “paid Russian propaganda” which is absurd. OANN wasn’t publishing the freelancer’s Sputnik stories, nor was Sputnik — or Russia— telling the freelancer what to write.


36 posted on 09/09/2019 8:04:12 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Contact your state attorney general. I did and my bill went to $65 for just what I’d asked for. Received full refund too for the over charging


37 posted on 09/10/2019 1:33:41 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Rebelbase

As far as I’m concerned, however much they pay her over there, it’s ill-gotten gains.


38 posted on 09/10/2019 2:15:39 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: rhombus10; Red Badger

ATT Uverse also carries OANN (DirecTV is also ATT owned) - getting ready to ditch cable but haven’t checked OANN availability via other methods...but decided to do so now:

Couldn’t find any streaming services that carry it yet...

You can find One America News Network on the national providers:
AT&T U-verse – 208 (SD) and 1208 (HD)
CenturyLink PRISM – 208 (SD) and 1208 (HD)
DirecTV – 347
GCI – 64 (SD) and 703 (HD)
Verizon FiOS – 116 (SD) and 616 (HD)

You can also find OAN in your area on these local providers:
Here is where else you can find OAN in Mississippi.
Maxxsouth Broadband on Ch. 93 (SD) and 1093 (HD)(you can pick a state via drop-dwon menu)

Not in the US Mainland? You can find OAN on these international carriers:
Canada
iHR in Quebec on Ch. 393

Caribbean
Caribbean Cable Cooperative Limited (Check local listings for channel)

Germany
Base TV on Ramstein Air Base on Ch. 118 (SD) and 312 (HD)

Latvia
Lattelcom on Ch. 193

Puerto Rico
KiwiSat on Ch. 44 (SD) and 1044 (HD)
NRTC Niacom in San Juan on Ch .73
Puerto Rico Telephone DBA Claro TV on Ch. 235

Trinidad and Tobago
TSTT – Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tabago in Port of Spain on Ch. 198

UK
KVH Media on Ch. 4
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39 posted on 09/10/2019 4:12:39 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Rebelbase

>>Maddow apparently responded in turn, defending her own network’s owners by blasting OANN and telling her own audience the right-wing network “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.”

Plenty of KGB influence in the mainstream media, just ask Dead Red Ted Kennedy who used his connections to the media to get KGB access to the US voters in 1984 to try to unseat President Ronald Reagan.

Also the Saudis have been buying a stake in US news channels to control the narrative on Islamists.


40 posted on 09/10/2019 4:36:07 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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