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Fox News Admits 'Breakdown' on Sherrod Story

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Dark_Falcon7/29/2010 6:36:40 pm PDT

re: #82 freetoken

Isn’t that the real problem, though? Can one distinguish that easily between malice and incompetence or commentary?

Doesn’t this get back to the problem of proving conspiracy (in the legal sense, not the paranoia of Alex Jones)?

That’s why I said the deck is stacked in Breitbart’s favor. Journalists in the US get very broad latitude to present their stories, a state of affairs that results from their 1st Amendment protections. The burden of proof is entirely on Sherrod, and judges are fairly leery of the kind of suit she is filing. If any notable ambiguity is found in the matter, Breitbart will win.