Thank you, Mr. Posner. It strikes me that we are seeing an analog to Ware's story here in America with the Twitter Files/government censorship bombshell revelations and its investigators Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger. They've been maligned and slandered by members of the Democratic Party and their operatives in DNC-Media when they should, at minimum, be curious and asking relevant questions. Hopefully, as in the case of Ware, truth will out and the Corbynization of America's progressive party will rue the path they've chosen.
As I was writing this piece, Taibbi, Weiss and Shellenberger, were very much on my mind. The personal attacks on them, the dismissals about their journalism, demands for their sources, and the implied threats about professional retribution, is a sorry sign about the state of a supposedly free press in the U.S.
Great victory for John Ware to get his unvarnished reputation fully restored. IMO there are much stronger laws in the UK against such blatant lying. Would he have been able to have a similar victory if this were in the US?
As for the U.S, although the information used to attack him was demonstrably false, the question is whether it would have met the legal standard of actual malice or such a reckless disregard for the truth that it constituted malice. The latter is where he might have succeeded.
Thank you, Mr. Posner. It strikes me that we are seeing an analog to Ware's story here in America with the Twitter Files/government censorship bombshell revelations and its investigators Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger. They've been maligned and slandered by members of the Democratic Party and their operatives in DNC-Media when they should, at minimum, be curious and asking relevant questions. Hopefully, as in the case of Ware, truth will out and the Corbynization of America's progressive party will rue the path they've chosen.
As I was writing this piece, Taibbi, Weiss and Shellenberger, were very much on my mind. The personal attacks on them, the dismissals about their journalism, demands for their sources, and the implied threats about professional retribution, is a sorry sign about the state of a supposedly free press in the U.S.
It's horrifying, Mr. Posner. Utterly horrifying.
It's good to see your friend fight back ... and win.
Great victory for John Ware to get his unvarnished reputation fully restored. IMO there are much stronger laws in the UK against such blatant lying. Would he have been able to have a similar victory if this were in the US?
As for the U.S, although the information used to attack him was demonstrably false, the question is whether it would have met the legal standard of actual malice or such a reckless disregard for the truth that it constituted malice. The latter is where he might have succeeded.
Defamation lawsuits are much more often filed and successful in the UK than in the US
An ILLEGAL protest. Tighten up.