Posted on 07/05/2022 6:53:57 AM PDT by rktman
President Joe Biden and his liberal compatriots in politics, the media, and social media constantly are crowing about “misinformation.” Although the type of censorship they seem to support is not the answer, reconsideration of the legal standard governing defamation, as Justice Clarence Thomas has urged, might be.
The Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday in the case of Coral Ridge Ministries Media v. Southern Poverty Law Center. In his dissent from the high court’s refusal to accept the appeal, Thomas once again urges fellow justices to reconsider the double standard for defamation that the court established in New York Times v. Sullivan in 1964. Thomas first did so in a longer dissent in 2021 in another case the court refused to hear, Berisha v. Lawson.
Coral Ridge Ministries, as Thomas explains, is a “Christian nonprofit dedicated to spreading the ‘Gospel of Jesus Christ’ and ‘a biblically informed view of the world.’” In 2017, Amazon told Coral Ridge Ministries that it was ineligible for Amazon’s nonprofit donation program because it had been labeled as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
[O]ver time the actual malice standard has evolved from a high bar to recovery into an effective immunity from liability. … The bottom line? It seems that publishing without investigation, fact-checking, or editing has become the optimal legal strategy. Under the actual malice regime as it has evolved, ‘ignorance is bliss.’
No wonder so many Americans distrust what they hear in the “news.” The public knows that the media can get away with printing or saying just about anything they want, no matter how false or malicious.
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This includes all “media”. They exploit the ignorance and low intelligence of the “new immigrant america.”
Defamation needs to be tightened up, seriously! Lives can and are being destroyed without any recourse. The liars or at least reckless purveyors of “information” need to be prosecuted!!
I fear that serious addressing of this issue will not occur until one or more of the offenders are taken out by a person(s) whose lives have been devestated by the slander/libel.
The current game being played is engaging in the slander/libel up front, then possibly halfheartedly printing a retraction after the damage has been done.
The last two times a serious effort to rectify the damage were made (per my memory) required hefty legal lawsuits: Richard Jewell of the Atlanta Olympics, and NBC and the exploding truck scenario. Both of those were years ago.
And if you believe the Mockingbird theory, the courts will be under pressure by certain quarters of government not to allow such lawsuits to proceed.
“Taken out”...... Like for pizza? 😜✌🙊🙉🙈
Yeah, that’s it! Pizza.
Ping
They lie about not just conservatives. Slander is their first resort for anyone they decide they decide they don’t like. For example JK Rowling is a “Nazi” because she said men don’t have periods.
What about Nicholas Sandmann?
The SPLC is a Terrorist Group imho!
Nick Sandmann....and Kyle Rittenhouse BETTER get moving!!
Coral Ridge Ministries admitted they are a ‘public figure’. As such the standards to prove slander are much higher.
If Rittenhouse had a case he would have filed by now.
Sandmann might not have to worry about where his next meal comes from, but the media since still continues the same pattern.
The next Sandmann may not be so fortunate.
The SPLC ought to be taken out... for pizza!
They called him a MURDERER AFTER he was AQUITTED!
Then why hasn't he filed a single suit yet?
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