Posted on 08/12/2021 10:31:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When the New York Times stepped into the ring with Project Veritas, it thought it would be a pretty easy victory, but the group known for undercover videos and on the scene fact-finding is a lot scrappier than the “paper of record” anticipated. Now, after a recent court decision, the Times is on the backfoot.
According to the Project Veritas website, Justice Charles D. Wood of the Supreme Court of New York in Westchester County handed down a ruling on Wednesday that the New York Times’ motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit against them by Project Veritas is denied.
It all started when the undercover work done by Project Veritas in uncovering the Minnesota ballot harvesting was labeled as “deceptive.”
(READ: Project Veritas Blows Illegal Ballot Harvesting Scheme Connected to Ilhan Omar Wide Open)
When Project Veritas brought the lawsuit against the New York Times, the Times attempted to defend itself by claiming the writer of the piece in question, Maggie Astor, was simply stating an “unverifiable expression of opinion.” Just one problem. That claim of the videos being “deceptive” was printed in the news section of the NYT, meaning they were trying to pass off the claim that Project Veritas was attempting to fool its viewers as fact.
The court agreed with Project Veritas:
Project Veritas pointed out this “opinion” was printed in the news section of The New York Times and the Court agreed: “if a writer interjects an opinion in a news article (and will seek to claim legal protections as opinion) it stands to reason that the writer should have an obligation to alert the reader … that it is opinion.” The Times did not do so, and the Court found this troubling.
The Court found Project Veritas demonstrated “a substantial basis in law and fact that the Defendants [The New York Times] acted with actual malice, that is, with knowledge that the statements in the Articles were false or made with reckless disregard of whether they were false or not” and Project Veritas should be permitted to “conduct discovery.”
With this ruling, Project Veritas can now drag Astor and NYT executive editor Dean Baquet into the courtroom and answer questions under oath. The answers to these questions will be recorded and shown to the world.
This is big news. Oftentimes, mainstream news sources will make claims about right-wing investigations that are wholly inconvenient and destructive to leftist narratives or organizations. With this win, Project Veritas will teach these news outlets to think twice before they outright lie about what was discovered and reported.
That was March 19, 2021
On the ropes? I’d rather see it Apollo Creeded.
Appeals court will rule...no standing...
So sad...soup for my family!
Strange that RedState would publish an article on Aug 12 about something that happened on March 19.
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PRAY for Project Veritas and send them a CHECK! They do GREAT work!
The Grey Lady is being exposed as the whore she is and has been for decades.
What the racist NY Times is especially scared of is discovery. They were afraid of this lawsuit because they knew they couldn’t just pay off Project Veritas to go away. Any damages from defamation are not going to be much.
But they went to the extraordinary step of trying to appeal the denial of their motion to dismiss so as to avoid the routine step of discovery.
Obviously if they are forced to hand over all the internal emails and editor’s notes, etc its going to be hugely embarrassing for them. Anybody with a brain should have suspected it anyway but their behavior absolutely confirms it....there will be all sorts of dirt in there about how they slant their coverage of the news and just outright lie to further their Leftist agenda by smearing conservatives at every turn.
“if a writer interjects an opinion in a news article (and will seek to claim legal protections as opinion) it stands to reason that the writer should have an obligation to alert the reader … that it is opinion.”
If that’s the case, every page of every issue of the NYT would have to be labeled “Opinion”. Arguably, every line.
Unfortunately, the leftist, democrat party enemy is all around us. Fight back any way you can, folks, including against the individual democrat voter.
I would love for this to be it. I would love seeing the NYT have to answer real questions, but we are not there yet.
In New York State the Supreme Court is actually the lowest level court. The Times will drag the case to the Appellate Division and if it loses it will drag the case to the highest court in New York, THe Court of Appeals. It will keep fighting until it gets to the Supreme Court of the United States.
This is a good start, far better than a loss, but it is only a good beginning and nothing more.
““if a writer interjects an opinion in a news article (and will seek to claim legal protections as opinion) it stands to reason that the writer should have an obligation to alert the reader … that it is opinion.”
If that’s the case, every page of every issue of the NYT would have to be labeled “Opinion”. Arguably, every line.”
At the forefront of NYT opinion pretending to be new are the outrageous headlines, which are unabashed ad hominem opinion statement attacks.
This ought to be fun. Didn’t O’Keefe confront Baquet (and wife) somewhere out on the street and Baquet basically just laughed in his face?
Nah! They will just learn to conceal their lies a bit better.
The nyt should be placed under court-ordered dissolution, and its assets distributed among the inhabitants of Turkmenistan.
LOL at the headline. They are not “on the ropes.”
I bet they suddenly "lose" a few hundred terabytes of data.
Close em down.
They probably won't.
And if they do, they will be overturned.
Project Veritas will win this case.
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