CNN found Liable for Defamation.
On Friday, a jury of six in Florida’s 14th Circuit Court in Bay County has found CNN liable for the defamation of Navy veteran Zachary Young and that he was entitled economic and emotional damages, a ruling that proved CNN was not worthy of their moniker “the most trusted name in news.” They also found that CNN’s reporters had demonstrated expressed malice, actual malice, and outrageous behavior, which opened the door for a massive punitive damages judgement.
Some background from Jonathan Turley;
Young’s attorney, Vel Freedman, later laid waste to CNN. He told the court that Young had lost his security clearance back in 2022 and that he hadn’t been aware of that until he double-checked after his testimony in the case. Freedman asked for the right to present a witness who would testify on the issue and Axelrod objected. Judge Henry had had enough and blew up at CNN. He read back Axelrod’s comments and said “You called him a liar multiple times there.” He told Axelrod that he owed an apology to the plaintiff. After telling CNN that “this isn’t Kindergarten, ” he added “Right now, your credibility with me, Mr. Axelrod, is about none.”
That is never a good thing to hear from a judge.
It would take a heart of stone to not laugh.
Is the Sandy Hook / Alex Jones decision going to be part of the monetary template?
*Asking for some investors…
CNN lies.
Their lawyers lie.
Democrats lie.
Trust us, we don’t cheat on elections!
Hopefully an appeals court decides the award was too low, and at least doubles it.
Was the whole CNN atrack on Young organized by the Biden Administration to deflect criticism from the botched Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan?
Yes.
Hopefully he gets tens, if not hundreds of, millions in punitive damages. Considering the testimony of the CNN employees, as a juror I would go for hundreds of millions as a move toward putting these scumbags out of business
$1.5 billion should be the starting number, after all CNN has a much bigger reach than Alex Jones.
Just as “not showing up to riot is a failed conservative policy”, so too are most conservatives too hesitant to pursue legal action like this. Nothing wrong with a thick skin, but the far left knows that, and pushes it way too far. Covington kids anyone? I am glad this seems to be changing, and more conservatives are fighting back in the courts. May they all become stinking wealthy.
I’m enjoying this. Ace of Spades, at the AOSHQ blog has a bit of a vendetta with Jake Tapper, so he’s probably enjoying this more than I am. Ace always calls Tapper a controlling, dishonest publicity whore. A label which Tapper goes out of his way to cast down. However, one of the most hilarious occurrences that happened between them was Ace putting some comment on Twitter during Tapper’s show. Tapper, actually, responded to deny it….and Ace responded with something like, “Dude, I was just quoting something you said on your stupid show, and you’re tweeting me WHILE YOUR SHOW IS ON THE AIR.”
hallehuah halleluah halleluah !!!
well folks, looks like the 2nd Trump term HAS ALREADY STARTED
Can you imagine the CBC being sued for the routine slander and libel they commit against Conservatives in Canada?
Of course you can’t, Canadian courts do what they are told by the Liberals. Justice in Bananada? Please.
oooooooh gawd almighty the punitive stuff. since they are dealing with a big media organization its gonna be ‘send them all a message’ off the bloody scale.
jeezuz jeezuz jeezuz l dont know a thing about the case but this seriously
made my day/week/month
Huh? CNN’s operatives sound like every one of my neighbors here in N.CA. When you get right down to it … they’re all very hateful and resentful people.
The award should be substantial but I can’t see it topping what Fox got dinged for Tucker
Hey CNN here’s where you can get the $5 million.
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1880345814461202604?
Good news eh? Note that Disney owns the Crappy News Network.
I’m waiting for CNN’s “Pledge Week”, like the PBS stations run to raise operating funds.
“Help us reach our goal of $25 million dollars so we can continue to bring you content that no other station provides**. Currently we stand at $3,227.26, 413 soda cans which we can turn in for the 5¢ deposit, and two foil gum wrappers.”
**No other station provides content like ours because they don’t want to be sued.