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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A federal judge issued a scathing indictment of the national news media this month, arguing that the press’ near-unanimous support of one party over another presents a “threat to a viable democracy.”
The remarks came as part of a dissenting opinion to a ruling in which the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a defamation suit brought against the environmental group Global Witness, which had falsely accused two former Liberian officials of accepting bribes from oil giant Exxon, on the grounds that the plaintiffs had failed to show the group had acted with “actual malice.”
D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence Silberman, who had been appointed by President Ronald Reagan, dissented from the case.
After disputing the majority’s interpretation of the facts of the case, he declared that the “actual malice” standard set forth in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan decision, which has the effect of making it difficult for public political actors to win defamation suits, should be overturned as a “threat to American Democracy”
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