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Court affirms media was wrong: videos dealing in baby parts were NOT deceptively edited
washingtonexaminer ^ | 1/18/2019 | Becket Adams

Posted on 01/18/2019 11:39:53 AM PST by caww

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To: Lurkinanloomin

My thoughts exactly. Not going to get wide coverage. So send a link to everyone you know.


21 posted on 01/18/2019 1:16:36 PM PST by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: caww

“shazam,” “surprise, surprise, surprise” and “golly”......


22 posted on 01/18/2019 1:36:00 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: caww

So far, Washington Examiner is the ONLY news service that has reported this news.


23 posted on 01/18/2019 1:45:28 PM PST by unlearner (War is coming.)
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To: Fido969

Abortion is the death sacrament
Killing for a good reason
It doesn’t exist


24 posted on 01/18/2019 2:01:48 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Mercat

Poor David. Maybe when his case is finally settled he should go back and sue them broads for sexual harassment. He does have video proof.


25 posted on 01/18/2019 2:24:06 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Mercat
Impressive!!!!

Bump!!!!

26 posted on 01/18/2019 3:17:49 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: caww
Pardon me for editing the headline:

Court affirms media was wrong lying: videos dealing in baby parts were NOT deceptively edited

27 posted on 01/18/2019 4:39:00 PM PST by upchuck (Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still sin. The culture may change. The Bible does not.)
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To: caww

Good. Now, it’s time conservatives get their head out of their fourth point of contact and sue those California prosecutors for malicious prosecution. No quarter.


28 posted on 01/18/2019 5:40:17 PM PST by ksm1
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To: Fido969

Project Veritas should the media, Fusion GPS and Planned Parenthood for slander, libel and anything else they can. Then POTUS should announce that since PP is so disgusting he will use any money they normally get to build the wall.


29 posted on 01/18/2019 6:25:17 PM PST by Betty Jane
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Court affirms media was wrong!!
I love your quotes from the article, but was not sure what to think initially, until I confirmed that they were quotes from the article. Since you didn’t use Italics. Since I’m aware of the limitations of using a smartphone for composing HTML, I’m not complaining, just saying.

Be that as it may, the salient point is that “the MSM” can be documented to have been monochromatic on the issue, as your quote suggests. Hardly a novel point today - but it was otherwise in 1964. I cite that date because that was when the famous New York Times v. Sullivan decision was handed down by SCOTUS. That unanimous ruling is used to discourage politicians, and even judges, from suing for libel. But your quotes are examples of why the presidential effect of that ruling from a half-century ago needs to be modified.

Understand, any court, including SCOTUS, would have to affirm the Sullivan decision if presented with the Sullivan facts. But if you read Sullivan today, it sounds quaint. First of all, the losing plaintiff was a Southern Democrat - a breed which was in bad odor nationally in 1964 and which has not gained prestige since then. On that basis alone, you would expect the Warren Court to come down on him pretty hard if given the opportunity. Secondly, the compliant was about an ad, not editorial content of The New York Times. But most of all, 1964 was the heyday of Walter Cronkite; “bias in the media” was not often spoken of in those times. Although Barry Goldwater did complain about “the referees” after the presidential election in that year. Certainly we didn’t have a POTUS complaining consistently about “fake news.”

The point is that Sullivan applies to Democrats and Republicans alike, in precisely the same way that a law against sleeping under bridges applies to rich and poor alike. Because rich people don’t ever need to sleep under a bridge, but poor people do. Likewise, Democrats don’t get libeled - but Republicans routinely do. Any impediment to suing for libel affects only Republicans. The facts before SCOTUS in Sullivan would not make anyone suspect that.

IMHO the Republican Party must sue the wire services and their members/clients, on antitrust grounds. And also sue the government agencies which place the imprimatur of the government on claims of journalistic objectivity. That is the entire purpose of the FEC, so it should be thrown out - McConnell v. FEC should be overturned. And no school should spend government money promulgating that lie, any more than Planned Parenthood should be allowed to lie about Project Veritas without losing government money.


30 posted on 01/18/2019 7:11:58 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Very interesting thank you. A good read...

I wish I could be hopeful that ‘media’ would be brought to task for what they consistently do in supressing and discrediting not only the truth, when it’s revealed and exposed, but also going after those who reveal it.

Unfortunately we know there’s one set of rules and consequences for the people... and then one set of rules for government, ‘media’, banking, corporate entities and their extremely wealthy financiers/donors, with very limited consequences if at all.


31 posted on 01/18/2019 9:12:27 PM PST by caww
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....”So far, Washington Examiner is the ONLY news service that has reported this news.”...

‘THAT’ is one of the reasons I like to read the Washington Examiner, there are good articles ‘peppered’ in it if one cares to look, and they often get news out there not always shown in the fully liberal left media of today..even they have have a leftist flavor.....you decide.


32 posted on 01/18/2019 9:45:40 PM PST by caww
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To: Fido969


Truth triumphant. Justice served. AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
33 posted on 01/21/2019 9:35:47 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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