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Trump Is on a Winning Streak in War on Press: Is the Sullivan Decision Next?
President Trump has won some victories about whether the 60-year-old precedent protecting sharp-elbowed journalism could be undone.
The conversation led to an article about two stoner arms dealers who became entangled in corruption in Albania, which became a book and then the 2016 movie “War Dogs,” starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller. At a trial in Panama City, Florida, last month, CNN was ordered to pay $5 million plus undisclosed punitive damages for defaming Zachary Young, a security contractor, in a report about Afghan refugees. Jane Kirtley, professor of media ethics and law at the University of Minnesota, says the case serves as a useful reminder: “Don’t put in writing anything you would not want the most hostile jury to read.”
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