Sometimes, even despair can lead to desperation more desperate desperation. This episode of The Most Trusted Name in News™, the embattled network of Brian Stelter, Don Lemon, Anderson Cooper, & company demonstrates just how desperate a failing “news” outlet can become as its ratings continue to swirl down the toilet.
How desperate, you ask? It’s desperate
Bloomberg Law reported Friday that the sister and brother-in-law former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn are allowed to proceed with their false-light claim against CNN based upon a story they ran alleging John and Leslie Flynn were QAnon supporters. A federal trial court ruled in New York Friday.
CNN ran an image of the Flynns at a meeting while a chyron appeared on the screen stating “CNN Goes Inside a Gathering of QAnon Followers.” The Flynns said the report was false because they aren’t QAnon followers, adding that they don’t adhere to the conspiracy group’s “dangerous, extremist, racist, anti-Semitic, and violent beliefs.”
CNN sought to have the court reconsider an earlier decision denying it a motion to dismiss. The lawyers for CNN claimed that Flynns demonstrated their status as QAnon fans by following it on Twitter and retweeting QAnon’s tweets.
Anyway, U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods agreed with the Flynns and denied CNN’s motion for reconsideration and a motion to certify an interlocutory appeal on Friday in a Memorandum Opinion and Order.
What does it say about you if you “follow” someone on Twitter? What does it say about you when you retweet someone else’s tweet? These questions aren’t just for Millennials and Zoomers. These questions are essential in the motion to disqualify.
CNN argues that the Court should conclude as a matter of law that by retweeting another’s tweet, the retweeter is adopting every word in the tweet as their own.
Stop the tape. One wonders how many zillions of times CNN would be subject to a lawsuit — if its own defense held up in the Flynn case — with the likes of Mr. Potato Head Brian Stelter incessantly retweeting “guilty by association” nonsense about any number of controversial issues, from Antifa to radical Islam to critical race theory indoctrination and beyond.
Judge Woods further observed that “a retweet, in CNN’s view, cannot merely be used to comment on another’s tweet or to forward the fact of its existence to another,” adding that the failing network is asking the court to agree with the ridiculous position that by simply These are the following a Twitter account, an individual is thereby “an adherent to the entire belief system of the tweeter.”
Why it’s “almost” like CNN continues to You can tryIt is possible to cause its own destruction, or?
This case is ongoing for several months. According to Politico, Woods upheld the recommendation of a magistrate judge in December that the Flynns’ defamation suit against CNN could be dismissed. However, Woods ruled that the portion of the Flynns’ suit that accuses CNN of painting the couple in a “false light” could proceed. At the time, Obama appointed a judge.
Whether the Flynns were QAnon followers, and in particular, whether the Flynns were ‘followers’ as that word is understood in the context of CNN’s publication, is a highly fact-intensive inquiry. […] The Flynns’ tweets do not conclusively contradict their factual allegations.
Uh-oh. Facts. Facts are to CNN as a crucifix or holy water is to a vampire, which is why the outlet’s self-proclaimed “most trusted name in news” silliness could not be more blatantly false. When ideology — left or right — supersedes objectivity and fair reporting, sooner or later, the lights are going to flicker, and ultimately there are hard decisions to make, including continuing a stubborn course of self-destruction.
Brian Stelter, Don Lemon could not be reached for comment.
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