WTF: ABC News settles with Trump on defamation case

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Joe Hass

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Dec 15, 2024, 1:35:30 PM12/15/24
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Well, if you had even the slightest inclination that the major media outlets were going to challenge Trump, this is some awfully depressing news. 


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Mark Jeffries

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Dec 15, 2024, 6:33:03 PM12/15/24
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It seems to me that Trump has never won a court case (although there may have been settlements). Considering that, why didn't ABC consider that the law was on their side--or did Iger tell them to capitulate so that he wouldn't have the Army at his home on Jan. 21 to arrest him for treason?

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Kevin M.

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Dec 15, 2024, 6:47:01 PM12/15/24
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I suspect the reason all the media — print and broadcast — has been rewarding Trump is they know the guy holds a grudge, they know he encourages violence against those who oppose him, they know the Supreme Court voted to grant kingly powers to the presidency, and… well… they are scared sh*tless that the tyrant is going to behead them on January 6th. As a result, they are catering to Trump, and there really is no journalism in the United States anymore. 

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Tom Wolper

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Dec 16, 2024, 11:33:46 AM12/16/24
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As popular reference, people think of the appeasement policy as PM Neville Chamberlain returning from Munich saying he had averted war. But that’s not the origin of the policy. In 1935, in the depths of the Depression, fascist insurrectionists rose against the republican government of Spain. The fascists were immediately supported with money and arms from Italy and Germany. The republican government appealed for help from Britain and the British government asked for assurances that British investments would be safe. The Spanish government had a communist faction that wanted to nationalize foreign businesses and they couldn’t immediately make that assurance. The Spanish fascists heard about this and let the British government know that if they prevailed British businesses would not be touched. The British government then said their official position was not to do anything to impede the fascists in the civil war and that became the appeasement policy.

The point is that big business will always find a way to accommodate fascism. Capitalism doesn’t need democracy to work and corporations aren’t going to put themselves at risk to preserve it.

PGage

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Dec 16, 2024, 2:07:51 PM12/16/24
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Really well stated Tom.

We are going to have to nurture and support non- profit journalism better than we have if we really want to shine the light that jeeps democracy from dying in the darkness (obviously the likes if the WaPo are not likely to he a source of that light). This is not the non professional journalism of  individual websites or Twitter accounts, but professional, not for profit journalism, which is committed to free speech and the search for truth, not maximizing corporate wealth.

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Bob Jersey

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Dec 16, 2024, 4:20:59 PM12/16/24
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Not mentioned as far as I can find in the Beeb piece... George S leaves Elon's X:
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