Posted on 02/11/2023 12:59:22 PM PST by fluorescence
When Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida convened a round-table discussion about the news media this week, he spared no effort to play the part, perching at a faux anchor’s desk in front of a wall of video screens while firing questions to his guests like a seasoned cable TV host.
But the panel’s message was as notable as its slick presentation: Over the course of an hour, Mr. DeSantis and his guests laid out a detailed case for revisiting a landmark Supreme Court decision protecting the press from defamation lawsuits.
Mr. DeSantis is the latest figure, and among the most influential, to join a growing list of Republicans calling on the court to revisit the 1964 ruling, known as The New York Times Company v. Sullivan.
But emboldened by the Supreme Court’s recent willingness to overturn longstanding precedent, conservative lawyers, judges, legal scholars and politicians have been leading a charge to review the decision and either narrow it or overturn it entirely.
Under Sullivan, public figures who sue for defamation must show not only that a report contained false and damaging information, but also that its publisher acted with “actual malice” by knowing that the report was false or by recklessly disregarding the truth.
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During the panel discussion on Tuesday, Mr. DeSantis accused the press of using Sullivan as a shield to intentionally “smear” politicians and said the precedent discouraged people from running for office.
Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment lawyer who represented The Times in the Pentagon Papers case in the early 1970s, said there was “a growing sense in the conservative community that this is their day to set aside New York Times v. Sullivan.”
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“Essentially what they’re saying is that they want to crack down on American journalism,” he said.
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The only thing the Communist Times can do is lie and spread disinformation.
Quick, somebody call the FBI.
I am surprised the Libs are not on board with this as they seem to be AGAINST free speech now. Though they really just want free speech for them and not anyone who disagrees with them. If you disagree with them, your speech is hate, violence and/or a civil rights violation of some kind.
DeSantis is taking on the challenges that Trump will not.
The “Press” is a machine that is used to print newspapers. It does not have rights. People that use Presses to distribute news as a profession do have rights—but those rights are no different than anyone else. They do not get special rights that the rest of us do not have.
That’s not true. DeSantis is a Wall Street globalist. You just don’t know it yet.
There is actual journalism going on in America?
Slimes gotta slime.
Again!
You answered your own question, FRiend!
oh noes...
that evil mean deep state globalist desantis strikes again...
The target is propaganda, not journalism.
Stop projecting. Ya’ll no longer can be taken seriously. Too much misinformation, conspiracies, clip and cut propaganda and outright smearing/lying. Ya’ll damaged your brand beyond repair.
Lol. The RINOs are really trying to get hom.
No, you all have allowed the GOPe to dupe ya'll yet again.
None so blind as those who will not see.
If the policies that DeSantis has put in place makes him a Wall street globalist, then we need more of him.
If what DeSantis has done is not satisfactory to conservatives, then we are a lost cause.
DeSantis should also go for tort reform while he is at it. Put an end to frivolous shakedown civil lawsuits by endorsing “loser pays” legislation.
Where’s your proof DeSantis is a “Wall Street globalist?”
Meanwhile some of Trump’s biggest donors have been NY Hedge Funds, like the one at the VERY top of this list of his top 2016 contributors:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contributors?id=n00023864
“....the precedent discouraged people from running for office.”
That is one of the goals for sure. It didn’t work with Trump. After he was elected they shifted their goal to make his presidency a living hell, so much so that he would resign. When that didn’t work they shifted to impeachment. When that didn’t work they shifted to voting rigging and voter fraud.
The only thing worse than American journalists is American lawyers.
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