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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hung_Low on July 01, 2021, 08:56:30 AM
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https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers)
Madcow was sued for accusing OAN as "“literally is paid Russian propaganda." on her show...
An Obama-appointed federal judge, Cynthia Bashant, dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that even Maddow's own audience understands that her show consists of exaggeration, hyperbole, and pure opinion, and therefore would not assume that such outlandish accusations are factually true even when she uses the language of certainty and truth when presenting them (“literally is paid Russian propaganda").
In concluding that Maddow's statement would be understood even by her own viewers as non-factual, the judge emphasized that what Maddow does in general is not present news but rather hyperbole and exploitation of actual news to serve her liberal activism:"
Fox News used the same argument later defending Carlson, however, the Left and MSM would not have it...