• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
New York Times Subscriber Growth Slows After News-Heavy 2020

Sarah Palin Is Officially Taking the New York Times to Court

January 13, 2022
Elon Musk’s Time At DOGE Comes To End

Elon Musk’s Time At DOGE Comes To End

May 28, 2025
Federal Court Blocks Trump Tariffs Used Under Emergency Powers

Federal Court Blocks Trump Tariffs Used Under Emergency Powers

May 28, 2025
Marco Rubio To Revoke Visas For Chinese Students

Marco Rubio To Revoke Visas For Chinese Students

May 28, 2025
Hostage Freed From Hamas Reveals Who His Captors Wanted To Win US Election

Hostage Freed From Hamas Reveals Who His Captors Wanted To Win US Election

May 28, 2025
Manhunt Continues For Ex-Police Chief After Prison Escape

Manhunt Continues For Ex-Police Chief After Prison Escape

May 28, 2025
North Korea Has Been Quietly Stealing US Jobs For Years. It’s Made A Killing In The Process

North Korea Has Been Quietly Stealing US Jobs For Years. It’s Made A Killing In The Process

May 28, 2025
Dolly Parton Says She Leans on Her Faith After Husband’s Death

Dolly Parton Says She Leans on Her Faith After Husband’s Death

May 28, 2025
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Ex-Assistant Alleges He Threatened to Kill Her

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Ex-Assistant Alleges He Threatened to Kill Her

May 28, 2025
‘Restoring The Warrior Ethos’: Hegseth Takes Blowtorch To More Pentagon Bloat

‘Restoring The Warrior Ethos’: Hegseth Takes Blowtorch To More Pentagon Bloat

May 28, 2025
Trump Gives Lesson On Negotiation Tactics To Reporter Who Asked ‘Nasty Question’ About His Tariff Strategy

Trump Gives Lesson On Negotiation Tactics To Reporter Who Asked ‘Nasty Question’ About His Tariff Strategy

May 28, 2025
‘Big Ugly Bill’: Dems Plot To Make Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Package Politically Toxic For GOP Lawmakers

‘Big Ugly Bill’: Dems Plot To Make Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Package Politically Toxic For GOP Lawmakers

May 28, 2025
Study Shreds Planned Parenthood’s Favorite ‘Safer Than Tylenol’ Abortion Pill Talking Point

Study Shreds Planned Parenthood’s Favorite ‘Safer Than Tylenol’ Abortion Pill Talking Point

May 28, 2025
  • Donald Trump
  • State of the Union
  • Elon Musk
  • Tariffs
  • Congress
  • Faith
  • Immigration
Thursday, May 29, 2025
  • Login
IJR
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls
No Result
View All Result
IJR
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Sarah Palin Is Officially Taking the New York Times to Court

by Western Journal
January 13, 2022 at 4:05 pm
in News
245 7
0
New York Times Subscriber Growth Slows After News-Heavy 2020

FILE PHOTO: The New York Times building is seen in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 3, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

A court date has been set for former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s defamation case against The New York Times, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The outlet reported Tuesday that jury selection will begin on Jan. 24 and the trial will begin on Feb. 1.

This case began with a June 14, 2017, editorial from the Times that suggested that Palin’s political action committee distributed materials that played a role in the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that left six people dead and a Democratic congresswoman seriously wounded.

“In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl, the link to political incitement was clear,” the editorial said. “Before the shooting, Sarah Palin’s political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.”

This paragraph in today’s NYT editorial on Alexandria shootings is offensively, quasi-Stalinistically wrong: https://t.co/nWhhcHfMso pic.twitter.com/LkJFifUh73

— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) June 15, 2017

In fact, Loughner’s writings showed he had planned the attack long before the Palin’s “cross hairs” map was distributed, NBC News reported.

Two days after it was published, the Times corrected the editorial.

“An editorial on Thursday about the shooting of Representative Steve Scalise incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords. In fact, no such link was established,” it said.

“The editorial also incorrectly described a map distributed by a political action committee before that shooting. It depicted electoral districts, not individual Democratic lawmakers, beneath stylized cross hairs.”

Palin responded by suing the Times, accusing the newspaper of publishing “a statement about her that it knew to be false” and following up with a correction that failed to make up for “the falsehoods that the paper published,” NBC News reported.

“The underlying premise of the Palin Article is that there is a ‘sickening’ pattern of politically incited violence against members of Congress and that this pattern stems from Mrs. Palin’s direct and clear incitement of Loughner’s 2011 shooting in Arizona,” the lawsuit said.

“But The Times fabricated this supposed ‘pattern’ and Mrs. Palin’s role in it, resurrecting a debunked connection between Mrs. Palin’s political activities and Loughner’s 2011 rampage in Arizona. By doing so, The Times implicitly attacked the conservative policies Mrs. Palin promotes and drove its digital advertising revenues at Mrs. Palin’s expense,” it said.

In August 2017, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of New York dismissed the case, saying the evidence presented to prove the Times’ defamation of Palin “consists either of gross supposition or of evidence so weak that, even together, these items cannot support the high degree of particularized proof,” NPR reported.

But Palin appealed, and the lower court’s decision was overturned in August 2019.

The forthcoming trial is likely to shine a light on newsroom politics at the Times, according to the Hollywood Reporter. For example, it said, Times opinion writer Ross Douthat “expressed concern” to the editorial’s author, James Bennet, about his conclusion. Bennet resigned from the newspaper in 2020.

Another important aspect of the trial is Palin’s status as a public figure and celebrity since she was then-Arizona Sen. John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election.

In the 1964 case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court established that public officials cannot recover damages for libel unless it is proved that a statement was made with actual malice — defined as “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not,” according to the Middle Tennessee State University First Amendment Encyclopedia.

Rakoff ruled in August 2020, three years after he had dismissed the case, that there was “sufficient evidence to allow a rational finder of fact to find actual malice by clear and convincing evidence.”

He will preside over the trial now and has reserved up to two weeks for the proceedings, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The parties will wrangle over how to pick the jury and what evidence will be admissible.

Palin’s lawyers have filed a motion to hide certain proposed exhibits from the jury because they could cause “unfair prejudice and confusion” for the jury, the New York Post reported.

Some of the exhibits include social media posts and videos of Palin’s appearance on the Fox TV show “The Masked Singer.”

Meanwhile, the attorneys for the Times “say they will bring a motion soon that’s intended to knock out some of what Palin has planned,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

Tags: John McCainMediapoliticsSarah palin
Do you think Sarah Palin should win this lawsuit?

Completing this poll entitles you to our news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Yes: 86% (6 Votes)
No: 14% (1 Votes)
Share196Tweet123
Western Journal

Western Journal

Advertisements

Top Stories June 10th
Top Stories June 7th
Top Stories June 6th
Top Stories June 3rd
Top Stories May 30th
Top Stories May 29th
Top Stories May 24th
Top Stories May 23rd
Top Stories May 21st
Top Stories May 17th

Join Over 6M Subscribers

We’re organizing an online community to elevate trusted voices on all sides so that you can be fully informed.





IJR

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Trusted Voices On All Sides

  • About Us
  • GDPR Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Editorial Standards & Corrections Policy
  • Subscribe to IJR

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Top Stories June 10th Top Stories June 7th Top Stories June 6th Top Stories June 3rd Top Stories May 30th Top Stories May 29th Top Stories May 24th Top Stories May 23rd Top Stories May 21st Top Stories May 17th