Someone With Brains Speaks On Media

[Billy_Kinetta]

What a fine idea. It would kneecap the Democrats instantly and end the ongoing attempted Communist takeover.

A federal appeals court judge issued an extraordinary opinion Friday attacking partisan bias in the news media, lamenting the treatment of conservatives in American society and calling for the Supreme Court to overturn a landmark legal precedent that protects news outlets from lawsuits over reports about public figures.

D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman’s diatribe, contained in his dissent in a libel case, amounted to a withering, frontal assault on the 1964 Supreme Court decision that set the framework for modern defamation law — New York Times v. Sullivan.

Silberman said the decision, requiring public figures to show “actual malice” to recover against a news organization for libel, was a “policy-driven” result that the justices simply invented out of whole cloth.

Federal judge pens dissent slamming decades-old press protections

 

[konradv]

What a fine idea. It would kneecap the Democrats instantly and end the ongoing attempted Communist takeover.

A federal appeals court judge issued an extraordinary opinion Friday attacking partisan bias in the news media, lamenting the treatment of conservatives in American society and calling for the Supreme Court to overturn a landmark legal precedent that protects news outlets from lawsuits over reports about public figures.

D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman’s diatribe, contained in his dissent in a libel case, amounted to a withering, frontal assault on the 1964 Supreme Court decision that set the framework for modern defamation law — New York Times v. Sullivan.

Silberman said the decision, requiring public figures to show “actual malice” to recover against a news organization for libel, was a “policy-driven” result that the justices simply invented out of whole cloth.

Federal judge pens dissent slamming decades-old press protections

OMG, pass it immediately. OAN and Newsmax would be shuttering their operations within a year. If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.

 

[DGS49]

For the uninitiated, NYT v Sullivan stands for the principle that it is OK to slander anyone who is a public figure; that is to say, you can't be sued for slander if your victim is a "public figure." The only time you can be sued is if the public figure can PROVE that you knew at the time that the story was false, which is essentially never.

So the practical result is that you can't be sued for slandering a public figure.

This judge, along with millions and millions of other people, believe that NYT v Sullivan was a huge mistake that should be rolled back.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

What a fine idea. It would kneecap the Democrats instantly and end the ongoing attempted Communist takeover.

A federal appeals court judge issued an extraordinary opinion Friday attacking partisan bias in the news media, lamenting the treatment of conservatives in American society and calling for the Supreme Court to overturn a landmark legal precedent that protects news outlets from lawsuits over reports about public figures.

D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman’s diatribe, contained in his dissent in a libel case, amounted to a withering, frontal assault on the 1964 Supreme Court decision that set the framework for modern defamation law — New York Times v. Sullivan.

Silberman said the decision, requiring public figures to show “actual malice” to recover against a news organization for libel, was a “policy-driven” result that the justices simply invented out of whole cloth.

Federal judge pens dissent slamming decades-old press protections

OMG, pass it immediately. OAN and Newsmax would be shuttering their operations within a year. If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.

Not press protection, but press license.

I agree. Universal application.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

LOL. Just another old fart judge opining on conservatives being "silenced" or "oppressed". For being silenced and oppressed, they sure make an awful lot of noise and movement (January 6th).
Sorry, this is just another whiny, old school judge (with Antonin Scalia's picture in the background no less. LOL) who was intent on using the bench to make sure conservative beliefs and norms were shoved
down the throats of every American wrapped in the veil of claiming it was all about "The Constitution". Sure, whatever.

 

[Mac-7]

Silberman said the decision, requiring public figures to show “actual malice” to recover against a news organization for libel, was a “policy-driven” result that the justices simply invented out of whole cloth.

Thats what happens when we appoint lawyers to the supreme court as judges for life

they become demigods and dictators

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[Jarlaxle]

Libel should be a felony...punished with long prison terms, huge fines, and probably public caning.