Donald Trump’s Wrong-Headed View On “Opening Up” Libel Law
GOP FRONTRUNNER MUST RECHANNEL HIS FRUSTRATION WITH THE LIBERAL LEGACY PRESS This website has enthusYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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You call it the “destructive force” against the political establishment. I call it advancing one’s ambitions by inciting racism and xenophobia among the credulous. Will the right viewpoint be apparent before November?
the “right viewpoint”
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pay me – fuck you.
the “left viewpoint”
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You earn it – i take it.
You steal it – I take it back
AMEN!
Who’s being stolen from and how?
Are you referring to Federal Reserve money printing? Banks with access to discount windows? Dems/Repubs that push gov’t business to their “friends” that sit them on boards after their “service” or pay them speaking fees?
the “right viewpoint”
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You earn it for me – I pay you my pocket change.
Who’s forcing you to work for them?
I can understand how some people would be sympathetic to that cause. The mainstream media is seen by many as being media lapdogs for the left. Therefore, some believe that a MSM that constantly leans in one direction should not be afforded Constitutional protection.
I think in the long run, that imbalance corrects itself over a period of time.
News distribution is not a responsibility of the government, and we should not put constraints on it that would make the government a major player in what NEWS is sanctioned and available to us.
In this day and time, more news is available from more sources than there has ever been.
If you don’t like the MSM, rejoice in the fact that the news distribution channels that ruled a few decades ago are now on the decline. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and network news broadcasts are rapidly declining in their influence. The internet has played a major role in starting to level this playing field. The most popular Cable News outlet now is more impartial and popular than CNN, MSNBC, etc. And there is more impartial NEWS available on the internet than anyone could ever read. Changing the libel laws would also affect all news outlets and the general public in a negative way.
Don’t like it, don’t watch it, or read it. The free market will be the equalizer.
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Considering this website’s base, Times v. Sullivan seems an odd cite.
Perhaps this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
Ha! Times v. Sullivan is the go-to granpappy for the progeny of libel cases, but I would also add a cite for FITS. Ask the Sun News about Kelley v. Wren, Opinion No. 5375, Court of Appeals of South Carolina, heard December 9, 2015, filed January 13, 2016:
http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20SCCO%2020160113446/KELLEY%20v.%20WREN
How’s that workin’ out so far? As of two weeks ago, not so well for Sun News…
Just read your link, Mike, and it’s interestingly heavy stuff but reads (to me) as reasonable analysis of the situation. Wren’s wording caught him and the paper in a trap, even if unintentional. Reminds of the ditty that there’s a huge difference between “your shit” and “you’re shit”. Ouch..!!
Similarly…
“Let’s eat, Grandma!” connotes an entirely different meaning than, “Let’s eat Grandma!” This is especially true in parts of Brasil and New Guinea…
In your truly encyclopedic repertoire of humor, you likely have the “Panda walks into a bar” joke that relies on the amazingly powerful little comma. Same premise… ;-)
Thanks for “Grandma” — now I have one I can tell grade school kids without their parents fussing at me!
Now introducing Soylent Gray! It’s made out of old people!
Ewww…
There are still two more steps in the appeal process. For a while it didn’t look as though TSN/McClatchy were going to press on — but now they are starting to get investigational again, rather than being docile about local abuses of power. They will take it all the way, and there’s no way in hell the Supreme Court will let this stand.
Apparently, pogo has given up on his obsession with the Kelley v Wren case. Either that, or someone has finally lobotomized him and put him out of our misery.
I wonder if the author knows that in recent decisions, the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects a right for the media to lie outright and intentionally? At that level, we’re not talking about Ben Franklin printing out stuff in his garage. Few people realize just how concentrated the US media is today. 5 mega media corporations own over 80% of everything you see, read and hear on the news. In some markets you can open your daily paper, watch the morning news, listen to the news on the radio on your way to work, listen to a different channel on your way home, switch to the evening news on a cable channel and never get past the views of a single mega media outfit. In a lot of ways, Trump, at least to some extent, has the right of it, and it should be obvious he’s not talking about individual liberty, which does not enjoy the cart blanc protections these mega media outfits enjoy. At the most fundamental level, if you can control what people believe, you can control what people do. That my friend, is the shortest path to tyranny and loss of liberty that exists. Misinformed people can never be free. The problem is rampant to a degree that the argument checks and balances should be discussed is not entirely without merit.
I would like to see the law changed to make it easy for public to sue PACS and Pols for misleading and often blatantly false advertising. Apply the “truth in advertising” standard to all paid political ads.
=== public flogging!
Trump should just buy a few big newspapers and a couple of networks and control the narrative the way Rupert does.
If a few competent lawyers exist in the legislature (a pipe dream I’m sure) they should be able to author rational piece of legislation that could pass Constitutional muster, providing an injured party an avenue to seek satisfaction from the individual or organization who published the false information. Incorporated in the law should be tort reform providing limited appeals (if not, corporations could continue appeals until the injured party dies from old age) requiring the loser pay.
Speaking of lawsuits, Skip Hoagland has won his FOIA suit against the Hilton Head Island – Bluffton Chamber of Commerce.
/// Circuit Court Judge Michael Nettles has ruled that Windmill Harbour resident and businessman Skip Hoagland is allowed access to the documents under the state’s freedom of information law. In his ruling dated Feb. 22, Nettles said that because the chamber receives public accommodations taxes, it must comply with the law. ///
Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/latest-news/article63257422.html#storylink=cpy ///