What A Shame … Not!
The BBC reports that the Paris Mayor to sue Fox News over Muslim claims
The mayor of Paris has said she will sue Fox News for its inaccurate reporting about the city following the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The US network claimed there were “no-go areas” in the French capital where police and non-Muslims refused to go.
Anne Hidalgo said the people of Paris had been “insulted” and the city’s image had been “damaged”.
The network has since apologised for making “regrettable errors” on air regarding the Muslim population.
…Fox has also apologised for comments by terror expert Steven Emerson, who claimed Birmingham was “totally Muslim” and ruled by Sharia law.
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro subsequently said Emerson had “made a serious factual error that we wrongly let stand unchallenged and uncorrected”.
Mr Emerson said he had made an “inexcusable error”.
Prime Minister David Cameron responded by calling him “a complete idiot”.
Someone needs to explain to Faux News that the slander and libel laws vary from country to country. Maybe Rupert should tell them about what happened to his former tabloid in the UK for playing fast and loose with the laws. Because the Republican Party gives them cover in the US, they assume that they can get away with maligning countries with impunity.
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“Someone needs to explain to Faux News … ”
I think the world would be infinitely better off if instead of explaining anything to them, everybody just sued the pants off ’em.
They will just play the ‘victim card’ claiming that the law suits are the result of ‘liberals attempting to prevent the “truth” from being told’ [for a given definition of “truth”] 😈
Remember, a U.S. court has already ruled that it’s OK for media like FOX to lie as a matter of conscious policy. It’s just unreasonable for uppity furriners to call them on it.
http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html
Corporations of all kinds enjoy a great deal of protection when they lie, but actual living, breathing people do not in the state of Florida since the Republicans took over the state. Corporations own the politicians, so the laws are crafted to suit them.