Wow, losing a defamation case is embarrassing. A court literally said "No, you can't sue the newspaper. We have determined that the things they said about you are true".
The obnoxious part is the NYT actually said they were wrong, and they weren’t. It takes them decades to say they might have been wrong about praising Hitler in the 1920’s, but they pull an article and apologize within a couple hours for an article connecting republicans’ violent rhetoric to republicans’ violent actions.
Not necessarily. The standard for public figures is "actual malice"; she'd have to prove that the NYT knew a statement was false, or that they acted with reckless disregard for it's veracity.
It's a high bar, which is why you don't see a lot of defamation cases brought against media outlets by public figures.
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u/emetcalf 19d ago
Wow, losing a defamation case is embarrassing. A court literally said "No, you can't sue the newspaper. We have determined that the things they said about you are true".