Media Thinks Lawsuit Against Fox Is Great, Until They Get Owned and Have to Defend Fox
Posted at 9:45 pm on May 19, 2020 by Nick Arama
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama...ned-and-have-to-defend-the-network-they-hate/
Some in mainstream media cheered when the Washington League For Increased Transparency& Ethics (WASHLITE) filed a lawsuit against Fox News seeking an injunction to prevent Fox from “interfering with reasonable and necessary measures to contain the virus by publishing further false and deceptive content.”
Translation: a leftist organization claiming to care about transparency wants to shut down news or opinion they don’t like. What a way to not have transparency or First Amendment rights for that matter.
Fox is fighting back saying this is a danger to the First Amendment. “Plaintiffs’ position would allow the government to censor not just Fox News but also CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg, ESPN, and every other cable network. That is as dangerous as it is frivolous,” they said in response.
From Times of San Diego:
But what’s really humorous is who is now joining them in the fight, filing an amicus brief with the court, the Internet & Television Association (NCTA) and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP). They argued against the claim that from WASHLITE that “cable programmers do not have First Amendment rights.”
From Daily Caller:
The organizations argued that Fox was entitled to the First Amendment protections.
Hilarious that first media folks started this to harm Fox and now have to defend it, to prevent themselves from going under.
Sounds about right. Maybe they shouldn’t have tried to do this in the first place? How about making their own networks better rather than trying to take out Fox?
Posted at 9:45 pm on May 19, 2020 by Nick Arama
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama...ned-and-have-to-defend-the-network-they-hate/
Some in mainstream media cheered when the Washington League For Increased Transparency& Ethics (WASHLITE) filed a lawsuit against Fox News seeking an injunction to prevent Fox from “interfering with reasonable and necessary measures to contain the virus by publishing further false and deceptive content.”
Translation: a leftist organization claiming to care about transparency wants to shut down news or opinion they don’t like. What a way to not have transparency or First Amendment rights for that matter.
Fox is fighting back saying this is a danger to the First Amendment. “Plaintiffs’ position would allow the government to censor not just Fox News but also CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg, ESPN, and every other cable network. That is as dangerous as it is frivolous,” they said in response.
From Times of San Diego:
But what’s really humorous is who is now joining them in the fight, filing an amicus brief with the court, the Internet & Television Association (NCTA) and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP). They argued against the claim that from WASHLITE that “cable programmers do not have First Amendment rights.”
From Daily Caller:
The organizations argued that Fox was entitled to the First Amendment protections.
Hilarious that first media folks started this to harm Fox and now have to defend it, to prevent themselves from going under.
Sounds about right. Maybe they shouldn’t have tried to do this in the first place? How about making their own networks better rather than trying to take out Fox?
