ABC shouldn’t have agreed to settle the defamation case Trump brought against it — handing him $15 million for his presidential “library” (whatever monument that turns out to be) and another million for his legal fees, along with an apology.It shouldn’t have, first, because the standard for defamati...

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Margaret Sullivan, the last public ombudsman for The New York Times, wrote on her blog that ABC News was wrong to settle with Trump for $15 million for “defaming” him. On television, ABC’s George Stefanopolous said that Trump had been found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll. Trump said that was wrong and malicious because he had been found guilty of “sexual assault,” not rape. She points out that when she was chief editor of The Buffalo News, th…

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ABC News will never live down its capitulation after paying $15M to help establish Trump's library and $1M in legal fees, and it should have used 1A protections

By S.A. McCarthy The Washington Stand A mainstream media mainstay has been forced to apologize for defaming President-elect Donald Trump — and pay the winner of November’s presidential election $15 million. On Saturday, ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos agreed to settle a lawsuit Trump had filed against them, pledging $15 million to Trump and paying at least $1 million in attorneys’ fees. ABC News and Stephanopoulos have also agreed to p…

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YouTube video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb3nAkVFAXM Oakland News Now – ABC Settles Trump Defamation Lawsuit – video made by the YouTube channel with the logo in the video’s upper left hand corner. OaklandNewsNow.com is the original blog post for this type of video-blog content. ABC apologizes and pays Trump a $15 million dollar settlement in a defamation ... Read more The post ABC Settles Trump Defamation Lawsuit appeared first on Oa…

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ABC Settles Trump Defamation Lawsuit

It’s a tough day for CNN’s Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter—two men who seem to treat their press passes as golden shields of self-righteousness—after ABC News agreed to settle a $15 million defamation suit with President-elect Donald Trump. Cue the dramatic handwringing. Acosta and Stelter spent their airtime lamenting what they described as a “chilling effect” on the media, insinuating that the settlement signals some grand threat to journalism it…

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