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Hello and welcome back to What I’m Hearing+, the smarter attorney uncle in the otherwise average-intelligence WIH family. Today I’m en route from Toronto to New York, and Eriq Gardner is here with a fascinating peek under the hood of CNN, via a story that a network fact-checker admitted was “full of holes like Swiss cheese.” Plus: Yet more defamation troubles for Netflix, this time involving uber-documentarian Alex Gibney.
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Netflix on Trial & CNN’s Financial Colonoscopy
Netflix on Trial & CNN’s Financial Colonoscopy
Republican-appointed judges are greenlighting a surge of defamation cases against the likes of CNN, Netflix, ABC News, and Media Matters, revealing everything from private communications to the most sensitive internal documents.
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A few days ago, in the midst of an otherwise low-profile defamation case, a Florida judge sent a jolt through CNN’s executives offices when he ordered the news network to cough up a mountain of sensitive financial records—balance sheets, credit lines, internal valuations for a potential sale, you name it. At a hearing to discuss the matter, Charles Tobin, CNN’s lawyer, visibly bristled at the ruling. “This is pretty expansive,” he grimaced, processing an October 11 deadline to comply with Panama City Judge William Scott Henry’s sweeping directive. “This upends...
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