CNN has settled a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann over its botched coverage of a viral confrontation with a Native American elder that had portrayed the Kentucky teen as the aggressor.
Fox 19 first reported that CNN settled with Sandmann on Tuesday for an undisclosed amount. The $250 million defamation suit sought damages for the “emotional distress Nicholas and his family suffered” in the fallout of the network’s reporting.
Jolly good. The amount of damages being claimed were designed to punish rather than compensate and that’s a good thing too. The fake news media really doesn’t care who they damage and they need to be reminded good and hard that they are out of line. This story was wholly manufactured, but it didn’t stop the vile virtue-signallers from jumping on the bandwagon and vilifying these children. Now it’s payback time. Good. I hope it smarts.
Washington Post next…
Verifies Trump’s claim about CNN. Fake as a 3 Quid note.
Hopefully Nick’ll get enough to see him through this life – and help bankrupt CNN.
I read somewhere that the CNN news readers have to wear red MAGA hats too for an unspecified time while broadcasting … I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it is true. >};oD
Good. The way to end the Woke Terror is to hit these companies in the wallet.
I turned 70 two days ago: this schadenfreude fest concerning the discomfiture and financial drubbing of the left/lib MSM in the US of A is among my best birthday presents, together with the exoneration of an innocent young man, cynically offered up as a sacrifice by the smug SJWs of the Democrats.
What the states do, we follow.
In this case I certainly hope so. BBC and channel 4?
Codswallop?