Fair and Biased — Strike That — Balanced.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | March 20, 2009

Posted by Cliff Tuttle

The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of a United States District Court in Maine in a libel suit against Fox News. In Levesque v Doocey, announced on March 19, the Court held that the repetition of inaccurate news reporting from a blog did not constitute libel against a high school principal. The story involved an incident where a bag containing boiled ham was placed on the table in the cafeteria where a group of Somali Muslims were seated. In the blog piece, the bag of ham became a ham sandwich and quotes lifted from a factual local newspaper account were livened up with fictitious quotes.

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