Melania Wins Libel Case Against UK Newspaper

[Papageorgio]

Opinions are one thing but disguising them as actual news reporting is quite another. This kind of deception should not be tolerated and FCC rules should be strengthened to insure more accuracy in the flow of information to the American people.

It would close down most of the extreme right news outlets. There is a reason that infowars doesnt exist in the UK.

Because you have your own outlets that lies?

Two libel suits within a year, what other lies is your media telling?

 

[Papageorgio]

The UK doesn't have the same laws we currently enjoy in the US. Dishonest journalists are protected in America when they go too far. Not so in the UK.

Melania won a lawsuit against the Daily Telegraph.

January 26, 2019
Melania Trump wins ‘substantial’ libel settlement for a British newspaper article based on a Trump-hating American journalist’s new book
By Thomas Lifson
There are quite a few news articles this morning about Melania Trump’s second libel triumph over a conservative British newspaper that published false derogatory tales about her past in Slovenia. But very few mentions of how the Daily Telegraph, known as a the “quality” conservative broadsheet in the UK got into such trouble.

Not the New York Times nor USA Today, nor Bloomberg, for example, ventured to explain what source led the Daily Telegraph to end up repudiating so many of its contentions, and paying a lot of money, plus attorney’s fees, to Mrs. Trump and publish this:

Following last Saturday’s (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published. Mrs Trump’s father was not a fearsome presence and did not control the family. Mrs Trump did not leave her Design and Architecture course at University relating to the completion of an exam, as alleged in the article, but rather because she wanted to pursue a successful career as a professional model. Mrs Trump was not struggling in her modelling career before she met Mr Trump, and she did not advance in her career due to the assistance of Mr Trump.

We accept that Mrs Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modelling work without his assistance. Mrs Trump met Mr Trump in 1998, not in 1996 as stated in the article. The article also wrongly claimed that Mrs Trump’s mother, father and sister relocated to New York in 2005 to live in buildings owned by Mr Trump. They did not. The claim that Mrs Trump cried on election night is also false.

We apologise unreservedly to The First Lady and her family for any embarrassment caused by our publication of these allegations. As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs.​

Official portrait

But from the British tabloid The Express, we learn that the source for the now-disappeared Telegraph story was: “Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women by Nina Burleigh.” Ms. Burleigh already attained journalistic immortality of a sort by offering to perform oral sex on Bill Clinton in return for keeping abortion available.

“I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.”

Under American libel law, public figures such as the first lady are almost unable to win libel cases, but the UK is quite different in that regard. So, why she is not immunized from worry over a similar suit here, she probably has little to worry about from a court. It is not exactly a sales tool to have your claims be repudiated and apologized for by a major newspaper in another country.​

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...umphating_american_journalists_new_book_.html

Like anyone cares.

Typical left wing moron, it matters to the person that was libeled and it helps keep new sources in line. To have your reputation drug through the mud with no facts is a pretty low cheap shot.

As long as you aren’t lying about Democrat, it’s No big deal.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Opinions are one thing but disguising them as actual news reporting is quite another. This kind of deception should not be tolerated and FCC rules should be strengthened to insure more accuracy in the flow of information to the American people.

It would close down most of the extreme right news outlets. There is a reason that infowars doesnt exist in the UK.

Because you have your own outlets that lies?

Two libel suits within a year, what other lies is your media telling?

And they have paid for it. There is generally a libel case going on in one or other of the papers. They can be very entertaining. How do people get redress in the US when lies are printed about them ?

 

[mdk]

Good for her. It’s terrible the way some people treat our First Ladies.

 

[caddo kid]

It should become habitual in the US to take the lying press into court for damages for EVERY infraction.

Change the libel/slander laws.

libel laws in the US are written by individual states so, good luck with your idea

Your point?

my point is right there in print. Lose your glasses?

Here; I will 'bold' it (all) for you.

Can you see it now?

States cannot change their laws? That's news to me.

if you desire to effect change for every state that has libels laws that are NOT to your liking then, good luck

anything is possible BUT as I stated; good luck with your idea

 

[sparky]

This is the second case she won.
The American press is lucky to be in this country.
And they support a political party that wants to take this freedom away eventually......so they won't have to bribe these corrupt assholes.

That's due to people in positions of power that also have $$$

$$$$ buys a lot of personal intergity and moral persona in the court of public opinion

Which is all i'm reading here, give it 10 minutes and i'll be reading the very same sorts demonizing some public figure pointing out this very same metric

How the mighty have fallen, eh?

~S~

 

[Papageorgio]

Opinions are one thing but disguising them as actual news reporting is quite another. This kind of deception should not be tolerated and FCC rules should be strengthened to insure more accuracy in the flow of information to the American people.

It would close down most of the extreme right news outlets. There is a reason that infowars doesnt exist in the UK.

Because you have your own outlets that lies?

Two libel suits within a year, what other lies is your media telling?

And they have paid for it. There is generally a libel case going on in one or other of the papers. They can be very entertaining. How do people get redress in the US when lies are printed about them ?

Like Caro

Opinions are one thing but disguising them as actual news reporting is quite another. This kind of deception should not be tolerated and FCC rules should be strengthened to insure more accuracy in the flow of information to the American people.

It would close down most of the extreme right news outlets. There is a reason that infowars doesnt exist in the UK.

Because you have your own outlets that lies?

Two libel suits within a year, what other lies is your media telling?

And they have paid for it. There is generally a libel case going on in one or other of the papers. They can be very entertaining. How do people get redress in the US when lies are printed about them ?

File a lawsuit, however we also have real free speech where your country suppresses information. I’ll take free speech over what you have.

 

[Silhouette]

It should become habitual in the US to take the lying press into court for damages for EVERY infraction.

Change the libel/slander laws.

I’d think in any US Ruling the word “knowingly” would come into play.