Russiagate-spouting lunatic Rachel Maddow denounced One America News, claiming that it “really literally is paid Russian propaganda” during a 2019 segment of her show. OAN sued Maddow, MSNBC, and its parent corporation for defamation, since OAN is demonstrably not “literally ... paid Russian propaganda.”
Glenn Greenwald reports that an Obama-appointed federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, on the grounds that her viewers don’t expect Maddow to represent factual truth on her show, but rather come for her “personal and subjective views.”
The court ruled: “Thus, Maddow’s show is different than a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news. The point of Maddow’s show is for her to provide the news but also to offer her opinions as to that news. Therefore, the court finds that the medium of the alleged defamatory statement [Maddow’s show] makes it more likely that a reasonable viewer would not conclude that the contested statement implies an assertion of objective fact.”
