Was this a defamation suit?
I think when people ask why there aren’t lawsuits for every other lie printed that resulted in some form of death or calamity, from researching it…to win a defamation suit the claim needs to be demonstrably false
So character attacks usually won’t qualify. If I printed “The police are racist” or even “[Insert_name] is racist”, it’s very difficult to prove that as false, since there is no “is not a racist” qualifier that can be used to demonstrate
But if I printed “[Insert_name] is not a real Doctor”, they could use their medical license to prove it as false. Conversely if I printed “[Insert_name] lied about their kid being a shooting victim” the person could provide a police report and death certificate
This is just a guess, but it basically gives politicians and the media free reign on character attacks, as long as they don’t attack a credential
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