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The Only Way To Stop Corporate Media From Lying Is By Literally Making Them Pay
https://thefederalist.com ^ | 12/17/2024 | Brianna Lyman

Posted on 12/17/2024 8:56:39 AM PST by bitt

ust days after ABC News settled a massive defamation lawsuit for lying about the then-former president, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would be suing other members of the corrupt media. The message is clear — if the propaganda press cannot stop peddling lies, then they will be held accountable.

While holding an unscripted press conference Monday at Mar-a-Lago (that perhaps lasted longer than all the unscripted press conferences President Joe Biden has done in four years), Trump went after CBS News for the deceptive editing of the “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

“We’re filing one on ’60 Minutes’ where they took Kamala’s answer, which was a crazy answer, a horrible answer, and they took the whole answer out, and they replaced it with something else she said later on …” Trump said.

It is unclear whether Trump is referring to a new suit or a suit that was previously filed in November against the network. The November suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas alleging that the deceptively edited video amounted to “unlawful acts of election and voter interference” and intended to “mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales” of the election, according to CNN.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corporatemedia
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1 posted on 12/17/2024 8:56:39 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/17/2024 8:56:52 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

For local television stations their broadcast licenses should be revoked by the FCC.

They are not “serving the public interest”.

They are peddling leftist propaganda.

That includes (especially includes) any “Public Television” stations.


3 posted on 12/17/2024 8:58:42 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: bitt

Make no mistake, our MSM was/ is controlled by senile Joe’s three letter agencies….from the fake and deadly Covid vax’s to his Ukie war.

America was had, now what? Does anyone really think our CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. is going to change the way they have been doing business? Most Americans don’t even realize they were lied to by our government, our MSM, and much of corporate America.


4 posted on 12/17/2024 9:04:55 AM PST by delta7
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To: bitt

BTTT


5 posted on 12/17/2024 9:09:38 AM PST by nopardons
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To: bitt

I cannot spare this man. He fights.


6 posted on 12/17/2024 9:10:29 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: bitt

Hit them right in the pocketbook. Yep


7 posted on 12/17/2024 9:18:35 AM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: bitt

I don’t care for this.

There’s a First Amendment for a reason. We can’t just toss it because we don’t like what the media says.


8 posted on 12/17/2024 9:20:38 AM PST by SeanS
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To: SeanS

“There’s a First Amendment for a reason. We can’t just toss it because we don’t like what the media says.”

They can speak all they want.

We should not be required to give them a license to lie to us.

I don’t have a station license.

You don’t have a station license.


9 posted on 12/17/2024 9:26:58 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: SeanS

Tell that to Alex Jones.

The left does not play fair.

If we play fair we lose.


10 posted on 12/17/2024 9:27:59 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: cgbg

Crisis actors, right?


11 posted on 12/17/2024 9:29:11 AM PST by SeanS
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To: SeanS
Who said anything anywhere about tossing the First Amendment?
Freedom of the press isn't the freedom to lie or deceive the public.
12 posted on 12/17/2024 9:29:38 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: bitt
That won't work.

Their subsidized.

13 posted on 12/17/2024 9:30:54 AM PST by Manic_Episode (Harpazo imminent. Each post may be my last. It's been real =)
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To: SeanS

I am not going to debate Sandy Hook with you—but Alex Jones was sued for one billion dollars to teach the peons to obey their leftist masters.


14 posted on 12/17/2024 9:32:26 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: SeanS

I am not going to debate Sandy Hook with you—but Alex Jones was sued for one billion dollars to teach the peons to obey their leftist masters.


15 posted on 12/17/2024 9:32:27 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: philman_36

So who decides if something is propaganda or simply wrong?


16 posted on 12/17/2024 9:36:11 AM PST by SeanS
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To: bitt

The most impressive thing about Donald Trump is that he is well-informed and the most articulate person at conveying that information to everybody else. Because of that, his “surrogates” could feel confident at speaking for and endorsing him, while Kamala’s surrogates had no idea what she was talking about — and didn’t even try.

It’s very important for a leader to be clear on the direction he wants to lead — rather than the “Democratic” ploy of avoiding talking to anybody else and revealing their true intentions. Journalists and academics may like that because it is their own “opportunity” to speak for the supposedly “great person,” and promote their own agendas and self-aggrandizement.

That reached its nadir with Biden-Harris-Walz — faking it to make it. There just was nothing there. That was in sharp contrast to the only person who could give extemporaneous hourlong speeches day after day, and often several times a day — and like it or not — knows what he is talking about, so much so that they want to fact-check him — according to their much more limited understanding. Stupid people think that what they know, is everything that can be known — and what they don’t know, must be false.

Unfortunately, that has become the state of “journalism” in the mainstream media, as well as threatening their traditional roles of gatekeepers for all that can be known. But the world now is much larger than that limited perspective — and we now have a president up to those challenges.


17 posted on 12/17/2024 9:37:09 AM PST by MikeHu
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To: cgbg

That’s not what he was sued for.


18 posted on 12/17/2024 9:37:10 AM PST by SeanS
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To: SeanS

‘ So who decides if something is propaganda or simply wrong?’

Alex Jones?


19 posted on 12/17/2024 9:37:47 AM PST by Fuzz
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To: SeanS

Jones was sued to silence you and me.

The left can make any claim at any time—and you resist it you can be accused of harming families or children or whoever they choose.

Wake up!


20 posted on 12/17/2024 9:41:09 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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