Again, these right-wing newsmedia claim the lawsuits are an “assault on freedom of the press.” The First amendment guarantees the press freedom from government interference. It says nothing about allowing newsmedia to commit libel in order to sensationalize their stories and influence the opinion of the public. That’s why the newsmedia’s attempts to have the lawsuits dismissed were denied.
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Again, these right-wing newsmedia claim the lawsuits are an “assault on freedom of the press.” The First amendment guarantees the press freedom from government interference. It says nothing about allowing newsmedia to commit libel in order to sensationalize their stories and influence the opinion of the public. That’s why the newsmedia’s attempts to have the <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068,3650,915,722],"tags":[792,3924,3927,3926,3923,3925,793],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disinformation","category-election","category-fake-news","category-newsmedia","tag-dominion","tag-fox","tag-libel","tag-newsmax","tag-newsmedia","tag-oan","tag-smartmatic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20720,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions\/20720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}