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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.

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

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When photos of murder suspect Luigi Mangione’s arraignment hit the Internet this week, my first thought was, “Oh, come on.” The accused shooter of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson obviously possesses Kardashianoid media savvy, and after aping the Unabomber with a ham-fisted “manifesto” went to court Monday dressed in what looked like a Lee Harvey Oswald costume, though the color was wrong (Oswald was shot in black). Women’s Wear Daily covered his hearing like a runway event […]

That a sociopathic rich kid who’s too lazy to write a real manifesto (262 words is the insane diarist’s version of premature ejaculation) might skip the woods-and-privation part of the Unabomber story and jump straight to the American cheat code for fame isn’t surprising. That everyone from Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! to Michael Moore to writers at the New York Times and Washington Post would sign on to Mangione’s Bonnie-and-Clyde ploy and turn a murder into a referendum on health insurance and a forum for recognizing “public anger” (ten minutes ago denounced as both imaginary and a threat to democracy) is more surprising, but only slightly so.

And that was only the icing on the 2024 bull pie.

Crash Scene

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Chris Williamson engages in a wide-ranging interview with podcaster Dave Smith regarding the sea change that has taken place with respect to the declining power of the legacy media. In a nutshell, the drain cocks are open and they haven’t a clue what to do about it.

“After Elon Musk came in and bought Twitter, and kind of like, you know, this isn’t going to be a controlled environment, you’ve seen that a lot of these people,…they rely on the fact that their opposition is going to be censored or kicked off and they can’t actually compete in the marketplace of ideas…and so if those people want to remove themselves from the conversation, fine, but that’s not going to change the dynamic…One of the pollsters who got this election all wrong, was like ‘I’m leaving and going to Bluesky’…it’s like what? To go and get things wrong by yourself? Okay….”

This Is CNN

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At least, for now.

CNN reportedly wrapped up 2024 with the lowest audience numbers in its history. This is despite election years usually drawing more audience to news outlets in general.

From December 26, 2023, through December 15, 2024, CNN averaged just 93,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demographic and 488,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research as reported by the Washington Examiner. This trailed Fox News, which dominated with 1.46 million total viewers.

The poor performance follows disappointing election night coverage, where CNN drew 5.1 million viewers—a massive 44 percent drop from its 2020 election coverage. In comparison, Fox News attracted 13.6 million viewers during the same event.

Walkaway: At MSNBC, things are so bad that Joy Reid and Stephanie Ruhle are facing pay cuts

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