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Donald Trump’s latest act of media intimidation sets an alarming precedent
The Washington Compost ^ | August 22, 2016 | Callum Borchers

Posted on 08/23/2016 6:41:07 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

Donald Trump has hired the lawyer who helped Hulk Hogan win an invasion-of-privacy case against Gawker and given him a new mission: threaten legal action against several media outlets that picked up a Slovenian magazine's report claiming that Melania Trump worked as an escort in the 1990s.

The website Liberal America on Monday posted a letter it received from Hollywood attorney Charles Harder demanding a retraction and an apology. Politico reported that at least three other news organizations, including London's Daily Mail, received the same notice, which warns that Melania Trump will "institute immediate legal proceedings against you" if her conditions are not met.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: consequences; karma; libel; shill; slander
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To: PhiloBedo

Ya think!...I’m sure he gets lathered up,everytime Bezos comes to town


21 posted on 08/23/2016 6:56:26 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: Navy Patriot

My guess is that he’s just jealous that he’s not as pretty as Melania.


22 posted on 08/23/2016 6:56:48 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (New Tagline: TRUMP is the MOCKINGJAY! Defeat the Capitol!)
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To: Navy Patriot

The Snowflakes down at the Compost crying wolf AGAIN. The so called “media” NEEDS to be intimidated as freakquently as possible. Scumbag “democrats”.


23 posted on 08/23/2016 6:58:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Williams

bill was and is a rapist and goes to Islands to rape under age girls. But that’s not news


24 posted on 08/23/2016 6:59:26 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Navy Patriot

[Donald Trump’s latest act of media intimidation sets an alarming precedent. . .]

like telling the truth?

The Journalist’s Creed is a personal affirmation of journalism ethics written by Walter Williams in 1914. The creed has been published in more than 100 languages, and a bronze plaque of The Journalist’s Creed hangs at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Williams was the founding dean of the Missouri School of Journalism.

(I doubt many know the Journalist’s creed even exists.)

THE JOURNALIST’S CREED

I believe in the profession of journalism.

I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of this trust.

I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.

I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.

I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.

I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one’s own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another’s instructions or another’s dividends.

I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that the supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.

I believe that the journalism which succeeds best — and best deserves success — fears God and honors Man; is stoutly independent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance and, as far as law and honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship; is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist%27s_Creed


25 posted on 08/23/2016 6:59:31 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Navy Patriot

Since “escort” is code for “high priced hooker” damn right he should sue!


26 posted on 08/23/2016 6:59:52 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: boycott
"When the Washington Post assigns 20+ reporters to get the dirt on Hillary, I’ll start to think they’re fair and unbiased."

The fact that people who go digging up facts on Hitlery wind up dead just might intimidate the media types into finding other stories to work on.

27 posted on 08/23/2016 7:02:33 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Navy Patriot

Just curiosity, but why is it Donald Trump if the notice from the lawyers reads “the same notice, which warns that Melania Trump will “institute immediate legal proceedings against you”

We forget that Melania is a successful businesswoman in her own right and was such prior to her marriage to Trump.


28 posted on 08/23/2016 7:04:17 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Navy Patriot

The pathetic low-life creep has “loser” stamped all over his ugly face.


29 posted on 08/23/2016 7:04:38 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: stars & stripes forever
The MSM has essentially turned into Soviet-era Pravada. In fact, if Trump wins, the impact on the MSM could force a lot of college students to seriously consider NOT getting a journalism degree.
30 posted on 08/23/2016 7:04:39 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Navy Patriot

That thing has the evil grin of a homofascist.


31 posted on 08/23/2016 7:05:01 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Hillary never killed off anyone who might trip her up... oh, wait... there is a list of >60 people who have died mysteriously. But Trump has “latest act of media intimidation.....”


32 posted on 08/23/2016 7:06:03 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Navy Patriot

YEAAAAAHHHH SUE THE LYING MSM

That’s a very good precedent ! It’s about time !

Those filthy whinning MSM hope that they can go on lying without consequences ....????

GO TRUMP


33 posted on 08/23/2016 7:06:18 AM PDT by Ulysse (h)
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To: Navy Patriot

The media is no longer in the news reporting business, they are outright liars and Pro-Hillary/Obama activists.


34 posted on 08/23/2016 7:07:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Navy Patriot

Part of the democrat War on Women, claiming that a woman has no rights or reputation and cannot act apart from her husband.


35 posted on 08/23/2016 7:15:25 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Trump’s trying to intimidate the media... JUST THE OPPOSITE! The media’s trying to intimidate Trump, firing this shot across his bow. What’s next, his children? They’re despicable.


36 posted on 08/23/2016 7:15:36 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Navy Patriot

Obama’s people and Clinton’s people have boasted publicly about picking up the phone and calling Bob Iger, or Les Moonves, or Brian Roberts, or Jeff Zucker, and “advising” them to change the focus or spin of a story, or to pull a story altogether, and having them immediately do as they were told.


37 posted on 08/23/2016 7:25:46 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Navy Patriot

Is he of the Hapsburg ancestry?


38 posted on 08/23/2016 7:26:22 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Williams

Actually, in common law, the publisher who falsely asserts one is or was a prostitute is strictly liable regardless of whether the one accused is a public figure. Melania, a public figure, has a winnable strict liability case against the media outlets making the assertion if it is not true.


39 posted on 08/23/2016 7:30:16 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Navy Patriot
Donald Trump’s latest act of media intimidation sets an alarming precedent

After what the Propaganda corp media has done, they should feel lucky if we don't set up a Guillotine in Times square and start chopping heads off these propaganda agents.

Thousands are dead because these bastards used their monopoly of the transmitters to get that F***ing idiot into power. We shall be very lucky if millions of people don't die because those F***ing Propagandists in New York got this affirmative action fool into a position of power.

If Iran creates nukes, and if Iran uses nukes, that blood needs to be on the heads of the New York and Los Angles media propaganda agents who used their power to convinced people to put that fool into office.

They are responsible for Obama's legacy, and it is going to be one of mass suffering and death.

That idiot didn't get himself elected. *THEY* did it, and they need to be made to pay for the bloodshed they have caused, and will cause by their tampering with our election process.

40 posted on 08/23/2016 7:32:14 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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