Re:Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About the Media Rarely Lying
by monsecchris on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:03PM
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Federal courts since then have stated that being called a "white supremacist" is not defamatory as well.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/court-rules-that-being-cal...
Re:Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About the Media Rarely Lying
by ALittleLight on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:43PM
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Legal issues aren't really the question. The Covington incident is an example of brazen lying by the media. They had the full video and chose to wildly misrepresent it. That they did so because they were reporting what someone else said is completely irrelevant. They knowingly lied and did so knowing they would be caught.
There is a reason the majority of the public distrusts the mainstream media. Mainstream media outlets are inveterate liars.
Re:Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About the Media Rarely Lying
by afiori on Saturday December 31, 2022 @08:26AM
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The article is not claiming that the media correctly informs people. Just that most articles contains mostly factually correct data.
Almost always it is an highly curated set of facts; often intentionally designed to mislead people.
The author is not pushing the idea that the media is honest, rather that the way we describe their dishonesty is inaccurate.
My personal interpretation is that as long as you say factually true things you are sort of protected both on defamation and ethics claims.
https://www.businessinsider.com/covington-kid-nicholas-sandm...
Basically, the news was just reporting what someone said, so no foul.
> He objected to widely-reported statements by Phillips to the effect that Sandmann had "blocked" him and "would not allow him to retreat."
> But the judge said that these are "objectively unverifiable" and so can only count as opinion, which is unactionable in this case, as it is protected speech.
> Bertelsman also said: "The media defendants were covering a matter of great public interest, and they reported Phillips's first-person view of what he experienced.
> "This would put the reader on notice that Phillips was simply giving his perspective on the incident."