Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo & Brett Samuels, 12/17/24
Headline: “ABC News settlement with Trump sends chill through media”
“ABC News’s decision to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by President-elect Trump is sending a chill through the media, with press organizations suggesting it is a major blow.
“It should not be seen as normal for powerful elected officials to wage legal campaigns against members of the press and their employers,” Caroline Hendrie, executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists, told The Hill on Monday.”
https://thehill.com/media/5042894-abc-news-settlement-with-trump-sends-chill-through-media/
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Article in The Hill by Zach Schonfeld, 12/17/24
Headline: “Trump sues Des Moines Register, pollster”
“President-elect Trump sued The Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer on Monday over a poll released just before Election Day indicating Vice President Harris had a sizable lead in Iowa.
The poll found Harris leading Trump in Iowa by 3 percentage points days before Trump won the Hawkeye State by 14 percentage points as voters sent him back to the White House.
Trump’s lawsuit, filed in Iowa state court in Polk County, accuses the outlet and pollster of violating Iowa’s consumer fraud laws by engaging in deception.
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Article in FAIR by Ari Paul, 12/16/24
Headline: “ABC Settles With Trump in a Case It Could Have Won”
“ABC has agreed to pay $15 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential library and $1 million toward Trump’s legal fees “to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll” (AP, 12/14/24).”
https://fair.org/home/abc-settles-with-trump-in-a-case-it-could-have-won/