In Burnett v. National Enquirer (1983) (click here) 144 Cal.App.3d 991, 193 Cal.Rptr. 206, a show business personality sued a weekly magazine, the National Enquirer, alleging that an item about her in a “gossip column” was false and libelous.
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There is nothing normal about this picture. The people who did this to our Capital were inspired by Murdoch's propaganda networks of infotainment. There should never be such levels of hate of free will that our government is rocked to the core. Murdoch's ideology is responsible.
April 17, 2023
By Michael Conway
The most consequential libel trial in decades, (click here) Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News Network, was supposed to begin on Monday. The trial's start has now been pushed to Tuesday — which could be an indication that Fox is looking to settle. To be sure, pretrial rulings have already given Dominion a significant boost in proving its case to a Delaware jury....
Defamation (click here) is a statement that injures a third party's reputation. The tort of defamation includes both libel (written statements) and slander (spoken statements). State common law and statutory law governs defamation actions, and each state varies in their standards for defamation and potential damages. Defamation is a tricky area of law as the lines between stating an opinion versus a fact can be vague, and defamation tests the limits of the first amendment freedoms of speech and press....
Murdoch should pay Dominion what they want, "Newscorp" is valued today at $9.96 billion. They cannot freely lie. The damage to the country has been measurable. The cost alone in prosecuting the insurrectionists is substantial.
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By Michael Conway
The most consequential libel trial in decades, (click here) Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News Network, was supposed to begin on Monday. The trial's start has now been pushed to Tuesday — which could be an indication that Fox is looking to settle. To be sure, pretrial rulings have already given Dominion a significant boost in proving its case to a Delaware jury....
FOX News is not journalism as FOX News itself freely have stated over and over. FOX News and it's commentators are all employed by "infotainment." The falsehoods by FOX News and it's commentators are standard fare for them. They indulge in lies and propaganda 24/7. They can be held responsible for defamation because they do it all the time.
Defamation is defamation, it is not freedom of speech. I think every police officer injured or dead because of January 6th insurrection should join the Dominion lawsuit. Those police officers are dead because of the propaganda network at FOX News and allowing lies to overshadow the USA Constitution and the intent of a wayward president to destroy it.
...Eventually, (click here) the music dies down and this crowd of perhaps 35 grows quiet. “Today is day number 783 of the Jan. 6 political hostage crisis,” a man intones. “Every single night we say their names. Bear with me: This list is pretty long.” It takes him over three minutes to get through everyone. The crowd somberly intones “hero” in the space between each name. They are mostly middle-aged, mostly white or Asian, and many wear identical white T-shirts with a portrait of a smiling woman in a beanie on the back....
This is what the "Jan. 6 political hostage crisis" is all about (click here). It is about the brutality of the treatment of police doing their jobs while a USA Constitution carried out a peaceful transition of power. It is about former Vice President Pence trapped in a garage while these people tried to kill freely elected government officials at the highest levels of office. Why aren't the people carrying out such claim to hostage taking being met with the names of the police officers dead and injured that day that the so called "hostages" caused!?! This is not politics, it is a clear attempt to undermine a democratic government.
After reviewing the facts of the case, the errors in the ad, and the lower-court judgments, Brennan announced that the court had found that the rule of law applied by the Alabama courts failed to uphold the freedom of speech and of the press that are required by the First and the Fourteenth Amendment. Brennan quickly disposed of Sullivan’s reliance on earlier decisions of the court and cited several previous cases that had expanded the parameters of First Amendment protection. The notion that public debate should be “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” proved to be the most-quoted phrase of the decision, because it summed up what assorted champions of free speech had intended—that in a democracy all opinions, even unpleasant ones or opinions delivered unpleasantly, had to be allowed so that full debate could take place on important issues....
January 6th insurrection is an attack against the USA Constitution and it's processes to ensure a peaceful transition of power. Every participant, including Trump, was acting against the USA Constitution that day. There was a build up. FOX News was a responsible party toward that build.
April 7, 2023
The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, (click here) has upheld the Justice Department’s use of a key criminal charge against hundreds of January 6 rioters, saying they can be charged with obstructing Congress.
The appeals court said obstruction can include a “wide range of conduct” when a defendant has a corrupt intent and is targeting an official proceeding, such as the congressional certification of the presidential election on January 6, 2021....
The lingering stench of an ideology branded by FOX News continues for whatever reason it does as if there is actually a reason for it, most probably there is money involved.
