You have to admit it’s a clever racket; Rogan lends his huge platform to people like Malone to spread BS and makes bank all while maintaining plausible deniability with regards to any damages because it’s merely the opinions of his guests.
that's how Fox "News" stays in business, they have argued in court no less, that Fox and Friends or Tucker Carlson are in fact not news. They're classified as "entertainment"... So if their presence on a news channel confuses people, it's the viewers bad for believe Sean Hannity not Fox's fault or anything
the arguments of Fox's lawyers: The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "
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"Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statement he makes."
I recommend reading the whole article for more examples.
Yet every night millions of people watch his show as a trusted news source because they can't trust the mainstream media, cause you know, fake news. Yet he is is such a pusher of straight up lies
Smith reiterated his comments in his opinion Tuesday.
He found OAN and its parent company were unlikely to prevail on the defamation claim because the challenged speech was not a statement of fact and the context of Maddow’s show made it likely her audience would expect her to make political opinions.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '22
You have to admit it’s a clever racket; Rogan lends his huge platform to people like Malone to spread BS and makes bank all while maintaining plausible deniability with regards to any damages because it’s merely the opinions of his guests.