Federal Judge: WaPo Published Article With “At Least Reckless Disregard Of The Truth That It Had Previously Reported”
A federal judge just sided with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) in his defamation suit against The Washington Post.
According to the federal judge, the Washington Post published an article with “at least reckless disregard of the truth that it had previously reported.”
The paper said in its motion to dismiss that its correction erased any claims to malice, but U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected that argument.
“A newspaper’s own prior (and correct) reporting that is inconsistent with its later (and incorrect) reporting could certainly give the paper reason to seriously doubt the truth of its later publication—just as a source’s pre-publication recantation may be evidence that a publisher had reason to doubt the source’s original claims,” Nichols,
