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To: The_Media_never_lie
At the Newseum in the Aspen Institute 2011 Washington Ideas Forum, Scalia said the landmark ruling meant “you can libel public figures without liability so long as you are relying on some statement from a reliable source, whether it’s true or not
Wow, what is a reliable source? This could be the Achilles heal of the lying democrat activist media! Shouldn't the statement defaming a public figure be required to be true?
See, that’s a point that Scalia was condemning the Sullivan decision about.

Proper interpretation of the Bill of Rights says that neither you nor anyone else has the right commit libel. The bastardized interpretation of the Warren Court in Sullivan basically turns the journalism cartel into a priestly class.

The author of the link I provided was outraged that Scalia didn’t think that journalists rightly are a privileged class.


16 posted on 04/15/2020 4:51:40 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
The author of the link I provided was outraged that Scalia didn’t think that journalists rightly are a privileged class.


In the past few years, the journalists as a privileged class have gotten much worse.
17 posted on 04/15/2020 4:59:53 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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