Part of the Lanham Act also involves false advertising. When CNN said it was unbiased....it’s said now that this was a bold lie. Same for suggesting it was totally neutral.
It has a case because of these videos that came out in the past week, where CNN employees agreed that the network was no longer neutral. Judge assigned to this will have a rough time deciding the ultimate fate of CNN, based on the law.
Whether or not the suit has merit, it will ensure that most of the MSM covers the story, and therefore also O’Keffe’s #ExposeCNN reporting.
So even if Trump doesn’t prevail on the suit, he still wins!
Delicious! Thanks for the info
Discovery is what Trump wants. Get it on record for the public to see and hear.
Maybe they can change their name to Cable Opinion Network, CON.
“...deciding the ultimate fate of CNN, based on the law.”
I think it’s bigger than that. Determining equal coverage is not, in my mind, what Trump is after. They pay a fine for that. I think it is staying within the Trump claim of false news he talks about.
I think it will challenge the first amendment for the privilege to lying based upon free speech determinations in the first amendment and how they can be interpreted.
By doing it this way, he keeps it within the federal jurisdiction and out of the hands of the civil courts that are so packed with left leaning judges and attorneys. And at the same time, it awards the public a ringside seat to a news source running for cover in the open along with the voters seeing an attack by the law on left leaning mouthpieces identifying falsehoods. Win/win.
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If CNN "said it was fair and unbiased" in the course of selling advertising, that could mean big trouble.
Two newspaper editors from upstate NY went to jail for giving advertisers false information.
When CNN said it was unbiased....it’s said now that this was a bold lie. Same for suggesting it was totally neutral.
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Most leftist newspapers have a housebroken “conservative” on their staff to feign being “balanced”. CNN doesn’t even do that little.
Oh Crap CNN, MSNBC, SeeBS, FOX News, OAN. They are **all** slanted and biased. They only spin the news in the manner they have learned from their viewer demographic ($$$) that they want to hear. And they spike stories which erode or challenge their narrative. The whole system is corrupt and no longer represents “journalism.”
Yes, it will flush the liars and bigots into the open, where their propaganda techniques are on display for all to see. It’s not as though they have any credibility left anyway, but I suspect some people still watch them thinking they’re getting news.