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Report: Nexstar fired reporter to avoid Trump defamation lawsuit

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thedesk.net

Report: Nexstar fired reporter to avoid Trump defamation lawsuit

The dismissal was tied to an errant report on financial documents associated with Trump's social media company Truth Social, which triggered a deamation lawsuit.
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Note the Allegations are directed at Nexstar owned outlet The Hill over citing figures for Truth Social at the time the allegations were made. However Nexstar has to deal with the FCC since they own stations like KTLA,WGN, KRON, WPHL, KOIN, WJW-TV, WBNX, KTXL Directly and provides news content agreements for Mission Broadcasting stations with WPIX-TV, WNAC, KSAN-TV. If Nexstar didn't settle then they would end up having their local TV station licenses questioned in the same way Disney, Paramount, and Comcast had to face when ever the same issues took place.

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www.semafor.com

How Nexstar dodged a Trump lawsuit

There’s good reason for the TV giant, which owns DC news site The Hill, to want to stay out of the president’s line of fire.
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The saga began on Nov. 13, when several outlets inaccurately reported that Truth Social had lost $73 million that year. The figure, which the outlet initially attributed to SEC filings, was wrong: filings showed the company had lost $30 million since its launch. But in the scrum of digital media, 20 news outlets repeated the error. Among them was The Hill, the fast-twitch politics-focused digital media company purchased by Nexstar in 2021. In the span of about an hour, breaking news reporter Olafimihan Oshin wrote up and posted a brief article citing the Hollywood Reporter titled “Trump’s Truth Social has lost $73 million in less than 2 years, new filing says.” Truth Social quickly sued outlets that aggregated the story, including The Hill.
The case against 19 news outlets continues in a Florida district court. But on December 1, 2023, Truth Social dropped The Hill’s parent company, a giant in the local television business, from the lawsuit, noting that the companies had reached a settlement. Days later, The Hill fired Oshin.



One person with direct knowledge of the situation told Semafor that Nexstar, eager to avoid Trump’s wrath, had agreed to fire the reporter in exchange for being dropped from the case — which a spokesperson for Nexstar, Gary Weitman, denied.
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This is getting out of hand. What’s up with these broadcasters giving in to Trump’s wishes? They should be able to report the facts. No wonder truth dies in democracy.
 
only1moore said:
This is getting out of hand. What’s up with these broadcasters giving in to Trump’s wishes? They should be able to report the facts. No wonder truth dies in democracy.
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The corporate media is falling over each other to curry favors or avoid the wrath of this administration. Just today Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes”, resigned because he isn't willing to cede editorial independence to corporate execs bowing to Trump. The industry has become so consolidated with so few owners running so high a percentage of outlets that they've become too easily controlled by an authoritarian regime to turn to for independent coverage. That's why they've declared war on NPR and PBS. For now there are YouTubers and Podcasters to turn to.
 
rparky54 said:
The corporate media is falling over each other to curry favors or avoid the wrath of this administration. Just today Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes”, resigned because he isn't willing to cede editorial independence to corporate execs bowing to Trump. The industry has become so consolidated with so few owners running so high a percentage of outlets that they've become too easily controlled by an authoritarian regime to turn to for independent coverage. That's why they've declared war on NPR and PBS. For now there are YouTubers and Podcasters to turn to.
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Also Associated Press and Reuters got hit with "Limited Access" in the White House Press pool and they still manage to expose other allegations the White House even though they got hit with a ban threat in the White House. Also the FCC does not get to go after Reuters and Associated Press that's the difference between AP, Reuters vs other parts of the media that do have to deal with the FCC like the affiliates of NPR and PBS, Paramount, Comcast and Disney since they own local TV stations.
 
I have never taken a journalism class. But I do know helping an former girl friend who was a journalism major study for her test, you always try to have 2 sources or one you are sure of that will let you quote.

Instead of quoting other services or the company's press release, simply go to the companies SEC filings. They are not hard to read. This guy was supposed to be able to turn out a story "guickly". Management (on duty editor) has to take some blame he too. They should have had a financial reporter doing this story. Especially with a Presidential Candidate, double check you sources.
 
rparky54 said:
The corporate media is falling over each other to curry favors or avoid the wrath of this administration. Just today Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes”, resigned because he isn't willing to cede editorial independence to corporate execs bowing to Trump. The industry has become so consolidated with so few owners running so high a percentage of outlets that they've become too easily controlled by an authoritarian regime to turn to for independent coverage. That's why they've declared war on NPR and PBS. For now there are YouTubers and Podcasters to turn to.
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And one of those YouTubers, David Pakman, has been telling his viewers for weeks now about threats -- actual and potential -- against him and warning that any new video he posts may be his last. Paranoid? Maybe, but considering what broadcasters are facing from this administration, it's not difficult to imagine him being silenced. (BTW, I'm not a Pakman fanboy. He gets some things right, but exaggerates quite a bit of what the president says and has said. The other day, he lashed out at DJT for mentioning a well-known incident involving his predecessor and the Easter Bunny -- an incident that was real, fully documented, and embarrassing to the deteriorating Biden, but Pakman has either chosen to ignore it or was somehow unaware of it.)
 
only1moore said:
This is getting out of hand. What’s up with these broadcasters giving in to Trump’s wishes? They should be able to report the facts. No wonder truth dies in democracy.
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Perry Sook (head of Nexstar) only wants to buy more television stations. That's it.
 
Nathan Obral said:
Perry Sook (head of Nexstar) only wants to buy more television stations. That's it.
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Why? I thought OTA TV stations were experiencing reduced revenue like radio. I don't have the facts because I don't follow TV financials so I could be wrong, but a lot of folks on this site seem to believe all OTA transmissions are on their way out because of the ability to "localize" advertising and the cheapness of the web.
 
secondchoice said:
Why? I thought OTA TV stations were experiencing reduced revenue like radio.
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They've seen reduced advertising revenue. They're still doing well for the time being because of retransmission fees. When you have more stations, you can usually negotiate higher retrans fees.

secondchoice said:
I don't have the facts because I don't follow TV financials so I could be wrong, but a lot of folks on this site seem to believe all OTA transmissions are on their way out because of the ability to "localize" advertising and the cheapness of the web.
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I've said it several times before, but, if/when the NFL negotiates deals with IP TV providers and cuts broadcast TV out, the crash will be so big that you'll feel the earth shake underneath your feet. Retrans fees are heavily tied to NFL rights, and cable, satellite, and internet TV providers will no longer have to play ball with the TV companies if they can't offer football. I believe the current deals with the TV networks last through 2030. So, Nexstar and others can make plenty of money off of TV for at least the next five years. Something else to keep in mind is that the NFL owners are very much aware of this, and that's part of why they keep getting higher and higher fees from the networks when their carriage agreements expire. Jerry Jones (yes, THAT Jerry Jones) used to own TV stations, and I seem to remember a few other NFL owners being at least partly involved in broadcast ownership. Say what you will about Jerry's management of the Dallas Cowboys over the last 30 years, but he's a very savvy businessman. He's managed to make a mediocre sports team into a billion dollar enterprise. He knows what he's doing, and he's happy to make sure the other owners know how to extract the most money possible out of the suitors for NFL rights.
 
CTListener said:
And one of those YouTubers, David Pakman, has been telling his viewers for weeks now about threats -- actual and potential -- against him and warning that any new video he posts may be his last. Paranoid?
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Considering that the Trump administration is on a spree of deporting foreign-born U.S. residents just for their political opinions, as a person who was born in Argentina and learned Spanish as his native language, he does have a case to be afraid, even though he's white, Jewish, and a naturalized U.S. citizen:

 
apnews.com

Trump targets ‘Anonymous’ author and former top cybersecurity official in escalation of retribution

President Donald Trump is intensifying his efforts to punish his critics by signing a pair of memoranda directing the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first administration and stripping them of any security clearances they may have.
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AP has more on the Administration even though they are getting Limited Access to the White House press pool. It’s a guess the drama White House does not want the rest of the country to know type stuff. We can dig every article AP and Reuters has released on the White House Cabinet with no direct link that’s the one single article that lead to Reuters and Associated Press getting Limited Access. If Nexstar never owned local TV Stations and only owned “The Hill” would we have the situation we are in and would they run their operations with and without the Limited access issue?


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In rare criticism of Putin, Trump urges the Russian leader to 'STOP!' after a deadly attack on Kyiv

President Donald Trump has offered rare criticism of Vladimir Putin, urging the Russian president to “STOP!”
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