I believe the court is providing the immunity asserted by the Washington Post for merely passing along another's account and characterization of the event.
But I certainly agree with your proposition.
Posted on 07/27/2019 8:28:42 AM PDT by McQ444
A federal judge in Kentucky tossed Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann's massive defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post on Friday. What did the judge say? U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman said the Post was within its First Amendment rights to publish the subjective opinion of Native American Nathan Phillips, whose account of what happened on the Lincoln Monument fueled outrage against Sandmann and his classmates. "The Court accepts Sandmann's statement that, when he was standing motionless in the confrontation with Philip's his intent was to calm the situation and not to impede or block anyone," Bertelsman said in a 36-page opinion.
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Yep. Doesn’t matter really who appointed them. Money talks, and morals walk.
In Jimmy’s eyes he’s a spring chicken
This was an important ruling to protect the right of the press to outright lie.
Freedom of the press doesn’t mean freedom to constantly make up stories and twist everything into their own fantasies.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/freedom-of-the-press
freedom of the press
noun
the right to publish newspapers, magazines, and other printed matter without governmental restriction and subject only to the laws of libel, obscenity, sedition, etc.
Wonder how many times they had to change Bertelsman's adult diaper during the trial?
The judge is simply wrong on the law.
1st Amendment may give freedom of opinion but it doesn’t give freedom to maliciously defame.
So the real question here is was there malicious defamation and any check on exactly how much due diligence they went through to confirm their facts before turning their hate machine on these kids would confirm that yes there was.
Fomenting dissent among the races with known lies as video evidence that was known at the timeabout what factually occurred was available.
Yelling fire in a theater isn’t protected.
After reading the article I have no idea what happened.
I believe the court is providing the immunity asserted by the Washington Post for merely passing along another's account and characterization of the event.
But I certainly agree with your proposition.
They have gotten away with it so long they think they can get away with it forever. They could very well be wrong. They may find to their dismay very soon just how wrong they have been.
I never understood why “Native American” replaced “Indian” to refer to certain groups of people. It’s not really an accurate term, because all of us born in America are native American people.
And there is confusion too, with Indians from India. I work for a company founded by Indians, from India. Whenever I tell people I work for a company founded by Indians, I always have to clarify they are Indians from India, as opposed to American Indians.
It was an open invitation by The Washington POS to doxx Sandmann. That's how it works on social media platforms like Fecesbook and Twitter, and that's what happened.
Sandmann and his friends were identified, and the Twitter mob started going after them and their parents.
Bertelsman the doddering 83-year-old fossil has NO idea how any of this works. He's simply not competent to judge current media usages.
Sometimes Russell Means makes a lot of sense. Like one time he said anyone born here is a Native American.
However, I thought the case was not about the initial reporting, but the sustained reporting about the children days after knowing the true facts.
I'm sure that Sandmann's lawyer is all over this, given how he was presented as the premier lawyer for these types of cases.
-PJ
The judge is saying the press CAN defame someone? Isn’t that what the judge ruled?
By the way, here are some past court cases on the press and defamation.
https://www.thefire.org/first-amendment-library/freedom-of-the-press/defamation-press/
Most federal judges hide their information. He's of an older generation who doesn't understand the way information is splashed out on the Internet.
It will be appealed and I hope the judge is brought up for malfeasance like an lawyer can.
[[[And there is confusion too, with Indians from India. I work for a company founded by Indians, from India. Whenever I tell people I work for a company founded by Indians, I always have to clarify they are Indians from India, as opposed to American Indians.]]]
Its actually “First Nations” in Canada and the Pac Northwest now to avoid such confusion.
Dot vs Feather
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