Posted on 02/04/2022 2:53:36 AM PST by fluorescence
NEW YORK — A century ago, the publisher of the New York Times scolded an attorney for the newspaper who had just settled a libel lawsuit that had looked as though it would be hard for the paper to win.
“I would never settle a libel lawsuit to save a little money,” Adolph Ochs wrote in a letter to the lawyer. “If we have damaged a person we are prepared to pay all he can get the final court to award.”
That sensibility has guided the newspaper ever since, with the Times generally refusing to settle libel lawsuits for money in this country. Yet it’s also rare for one of these cases to go to trial because of the broad legal protections afforded publishers in the United States.
But the trial that opened on Thursday morning, pitting the Times against former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in a high-stakes showdown over First Amendment principles, could put those protections to the test.
“What am I trying to accomplish? Justice, for people who expect the truth in the media,” Palin told reporters as she entered the Manhattan federal courthouse for the trial over a 2017 editorial she claims defamed her.
But in his opening statements to the jury, an attorney for the New York Times tried to turn down the temperature of the debate, casting the matter as a simple error in presentation that the paper’s editors moved “as quickly as possible” to correct.
Though several editors had reviewed the essay, “no one saw the way some readers would interpret two sentences in that editorial,” said David Axelrod, the Times’s attorney (not to be confused with the same-named adviser to former president Barack Obama).
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“But in his opening statements to the jury, an attorney for the New York Times tried to turn down the temperature of the debate, casting the matter as a simple error in presentation that the paper’s editors moved “as quickly as possible””
So they admit it.
What was the libel?
Good for SP for following through on this. Few try holding the media accountable for their blatant lies.
Political incest.
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So the same judge who dismissed the case that was appealed and the dismissal overturned and sent back to the lower court is presiding over the case and it is a Clinton appointee.
Jed Rakoff:
https://ballotpedia.org/Jed_Rakoff
I understand not wanting to visit the WaPo website...but I put on my waders and went to look for myself (excuse the shoddy formatting):
More specifically, the piece drew a line between that day’s shooting and one in 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner shot and killed six people, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and injured 13 others at a constituents meeting hosted by then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in a Tucson shopping center. Giffords survived after being shot in the head. The editorial stated that in 2011, “the link to political incitement was clear. Before the shooting, Sarah Palin’s political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.” The editorial also suggested that the 2017 shooting was different from the one in 2011: “Though there’s no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack, liberals should of course hold themselves to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right.”
......as you always have Sarah, you show more courage and backbone than all the rest of the Republican Party put together!
Good luck in your trial! None of us should be persuaded to the contrary that this trial is a fight between liberal, marxist, elites and globalists who hate America vs Patriots in America... BECAUSE the New York Times is owned, staffed and operated by liberal, marxist, elites and globalists.
The marriages all over the political scene are well covered up when the woman never uses her MARRIED name in her paycheck.
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