Posted on 09/14/2016 7:48:07 AM PDT by Cheerio
I’d thought we might have heard the last of the Katie Couric infomercial posing as an examination of gun rights issues. After all, there was public outrage aplenty and even Couric herself finally admitted that the editing of the piece “might have been misleading.” (Really? You think so?) But the group which was the victim of the insulting and misleading editing, the Virginia Citizens Defense League, is bringing the GunGate story back into the news this week. Our colleagues at Bearing Arms have obtained documents confirming that the group is seeking to take Couric to court over the slanderous piece of pseudojournalism.
Second Amendment rights advocacy organization the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), along with two of its members, today filed a $12 million defamation lawsuit against Katie Couric, director Stephanie Soechtig, Atlas Films, and Studio 3 Partners LLC d/b/a Epix for false and defamatory footage featured in the 2016 documentary film Under the Gun. The film portrays a fictional exchange in which members of the VCDL appear silent, stumped, and avoiding eye contact for nearly nine seconds after Katie Couric asks a question about background checks. An unedited audio recording of the interview reveals that—contrary to the portrayal in the film—the VCDL members had immediately begun responding to Couric’s question.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Melissa Click, an assistant professor of mass media at the University of Missouri, ordered a journalist to leave an area where demonstrators had gathered on campus.
Glick?
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>> “ someone needs to put a boot on the neck of the media NOW.” <<
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>> “ someone needs to put a boot on the neck of the media NOW.” <<
AMEN!
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Awww...couldn’t happen to a nicer faux journalist.
An excellent legal tactic to force EPIX to testify in front of the jury that they pulled the video when they were advised it was a fraud.
I’m not sure I agree. Their editing made a group dedicated to defending the 2nd amend mentioned look like idiots, and that could have direct financial damage to the group.
Mea culpa, I had it wrong.
No problem...
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