{"id":94158,"date":"2020-01-08T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94158"},"modified":"2020-01-08T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:50:55","slug":"cable-news-network-settles-lawsuit-with-sandman-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94158","title":{"rendered":"Cable News Network Settles Lawsuit with Sandmann Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_94161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94161\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-94161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bashed-Nick-Sandmann-Backed-Jussie-Smollett-215x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bashed-Nick-Sandmann-Backed-Jussie-Smollett-215x333.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bashed-Nick-Sandmann-Backed-Jussie-Smollett-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Bashed-Nick-Sandmann-Backed-Jussie-Smollett.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The media falsely accused Nick Sandmann while quickly believing Jussie Smollett&#8217;s false claims. (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The legal teams for CNN and the Sandmann family have settled on a lawsuit initiated due to the media attacks on Nick Sandmann. They accused him of being racist and aggressive towards others. Others, besides CNN, have also become subject to possible lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From The Washington Times:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorneys for the Sandmann family accused the network of &#8220;bullying&#8221; the Covington Catholic High School student, who wore a red Make America Great Again ball cap, to push a political agenda, which CNN has denied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Contrary to its &#8216;Facts First&#8217; public relations ploy, CNN ignored the facts and put its anti-Trump agenda first in waging a 7-day media campaign of false, vicious attacks against Nicholas, a young boy who was guilty of little more than wearing a souvenir Make America Great Again cap<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; said the 58-page lawsuit filed in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Sandmanns, who are represented by attorneys L. Lin Wood and Todd V. McMurtry, sued the Post for $250 million and NBCUniversal for $275 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Washington Times has an article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/jan\/7\/cnn-settles-275m-lawsuit-covington-catholic-studen\/\">here<\/a>. The Daily Wire provides a list of organizations and individuals who were notified to preserve evidence for possible lawsuits. They include The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, and Elizabeth Warren. The Daily Wire provides additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campai&amp;fbclid=IwAR1mae5f4fng_ZZB4CZ-E7PhInt0dU9hF9U27ga_AsTlkvILvkjZWfoQ0YQ\">information<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a Fox News article on the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cnn-covington-nick-sandmann-defamation-suit-settled\">topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Veritas Omnia Vincit, A Proud Infidel, and ninja for providing the lead to this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legal teams for CNN and the Sandmann family have settled on a lawsuit initiated due &hellip; <a title=\"Cable News Network Settles Lawsuit with Sandmann Family\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94158\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cable News Network Settles Lawsuit with Sandmann Family<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94167,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94158\/revisions\/94167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}