Court ruling: Rachel Maddows show is not news but propaganda!

[Ulli]

And a federal judge apparently agrees with that.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald reports that an Obama-appointed judge ruled last month that “Maddow’s show is different than a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news.”

Maddow does not keep her political views a secret, and therefore, audiences could expect her to use subjective language that comports with her political opinions.

Thus, Maddow’s show is different than a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news. The point of Maddow’s show is for her to provide the news but also to offer her opinions as to that news.

While it’s amusing that we can now say a federal judge has ruled that Rachel Maddow’s show isn’t news, the ruling is actually not as amusing as you would think. The ruling was over a 2019 lawsuit from One America News (OAN), which sued Maddow, MSNBC, and its parent corporation, Comcast Corp., for defamation after Maddow claimed on the air, without evidence, that OAN, which she described as “the most obsequiously pro-Trump right-wing news outlet in America,” is “really literally…paid Russian propaganda.” Maddow was reporting on a Daily Beast article that noted an OAN reporter was a “Russian national” who also wrote freelance for the Russian-owned publication Sputnik.

The Obama-appointed judge Cynthia Bashant dismissed the defamation lawsuit on the grounds that Maddow’s audience knows she’s hyperpartisan, and thus, as Greenwald put it, that her audience “understands that her show consists of exaggeration, hyperbole, and pure opinion, and therefore would not assume that such outlandish accusations are factually true even when she uses the language of certainty and truth when presenting them (‘literally is paid Russian propaganda’).”

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/06/22/judge-rules-rachel-maddows-show-isnt-news-n1456306

[Israel Chai]

Wonderful we should have five of them then. Obama rapes Biden he needs us to save him and... Well what else can you accuse them of they arent already doing? They are very not little boy Maddow literally Chinese and Qatari propaganda.

It's really an advantage. When we accuse them of things there are facts and its boring and when they make conspiracies you get to act like you're better because you claim to know things others can't prove.

Anyways lovely precedent. Make the happy ones like Tomi and Candace say happy things now or ones like them.

[Nachus]

                                                                                

 True and propaganda for the 'left'.