Palin v. New York Times puts media libel laws under scrutiny

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Palin v. New York Times puts media libel laws under scrutiny
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Any efforts to use Palin’s case as a vehicle to compel the Supreme Court to reconsider the media laws will have to wait until after the current trial is completed.

Sullivan standard to evolve “into an ironclad subsidy for the publication of falsehoods by means and on a scale previously unimaginable.”

“The media should obviously be held accountable for mistakes in their reporting. However, creating an environment in which news outlets are afraid to report on powerful people because they’re worried about being sued is obviously not a good thing for democracy.” — Arwa Mahdawi,“Powerful institutions are held to account by a powerful press. Without Times v.

“As every recovering addict knows, the first step toward getting better is admitting that you have a problem. And the New York Times has a problem. The Times may not have any love for Sarah Palin, nor she for it, but the former governor is doing the newspaper a favor by giving it the opportunity to recommit itself to fundamental journalistic values, one of which is not making stuff up about people you hate simply because it is fun and profitable to hurt them.” — Kevin D.

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