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Source sues NPR over report on retracted Fox News story

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https://current.org/2018/06/source-sues-npr-over-report-on-story-that-fox-news-retracted/

Yes the Seth Rich conspiracy has somehow hit NPR too and not just Fox News.

Texas investor Ed Butowsky is suing NPR and its media correspondent for $57 million.

The lawsuit alleges that NPR coverage identified him as the source of a conspiracy theory behind a high-profile murder.

NPR’s David Folkenflik interviewed Butowsky last August for a story about media coverage of the unsolved July 2016 murder of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer. Fox News reported in May 2017 that Rich’s killing was linked to emails from DNC officials that had been leaked to WikiLeaks. But the news outlet later retracted that coverage.

“Butowsky had hovered behind the scenes of the story — an unnamed ‘third party,’ as he was described by Fox’s Sean Hannity … ,” Folkenflik said in his report, which included details from his 2-1/2 hour interview with Butowsky.

Butowsky’s lawsuit, seeking $57 million in compensatory and punitive damages, was filed June 21 in U.S. District Court in Texas.

“This is a case about an unethical and reckless journalist, who was spoon-fed a false narrative about President Trump and Fox News with instructions to leak the fake story online and in social media in the early morning hours of August 1, 2017,” the lawsuit contends.

NPR spokesperson Isabel Lara told Current in a statement that NPR “stands behind David Folkenflik’s reporting. Millions of Americans trust NPR to provide accurate information about the world and their communities every day; we take this responsibility very seriously.”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...ainst-npr-over-seth-rich-reporting-to-proceed

and a lawsuit continues

A judge ruled Wednesday that a investment adviser and former Fox Business commentator who sued NPR over stories about his role in funding a private investigator to probe the death of former Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich can go forward.

Politico reported that Judge Amos Mazzant of Texas's Eastern District ruled that Ed Butowsky's claims of defamation against NPR for revealing his role in funding the investigation into Rich's death that was publicly condemned by Rich's parents could go forward.

Conspiracy theories alleged Rich had been murdered as part of a broader political plot.

In his ruling, Mazzant wrote that "speculatory comments" written by NPR's reporter concerning Butowsky's involvement in the probe "implied wrongdoing" where none could be proven.

“Plaintiff has alleged sufficient facts which plausibly show the Reports were not fair, true, and impartial accounts of the Wheeler complaint,” Mazzant wrote, according to Politico. “Additionally, even if the statements are considered a true report of the Wheeler complaint, as Defendants argue, the organization of the comments combined with the speculative commentary imply wrongdoing.”
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