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Column: Should Judges Always Honor Crusading Liberal Media?
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Column: Should Judges Always Honor Crusading Liberal Media?
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The Supreme Courtâs Increasingly Dim View of the News Media
A comprehensive look at references to the press in justicesâ opinions revealed âa marked and previously undocumented uptick in negative depictions.â
Conservative justices have always been more apt to write negatively about the press. But a new study found that now liberal justices also have little good to say about it.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
April 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON â Last month, in a dissent in a routine libel case, a prominent federal judge lashed out at the news media.
âTwo of the three most influential papers (at least historically), The New York Times and The Washington Post, are virtually Democratic Party broadsheets,â wrote Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. âAnd the news section of The Wall Street Journal leans in the same direction.â
Journalism and the Constitution are greatly intertwined. Our Bill of Rights explicitly protects the right of the ‘press’ to operate and our founders believed that a vigorous media was essential for government accountability. But who watches the watchdogs?
Last fall many Americans were aghast by the actions of Big Tech and the mainstream media which pushed a false narrative about Russia’s role with Hunter Biden’s laptop and simultaneously quashed all contrary reports implying that it would be libelous to do so.
Washington policymakers of all political stripes have publicly questioned whether social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be liable for what they “publish” or allow to be splashed across their pixelated webpages and for what they refuse to allow. Congress has held hearings. More are expected.
Gov Ron DeSantis Should Sue 60 Minutes For Defamation
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