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15. I am referring to the case referenced in the post to which we both replied.

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 12:06 PM

Dec 2021

That post referred to a Florida Court of Appeals case. The case you are citing was from New York. I'm not sure how I was supposed to know you were referring to a completely different case than the post to which we both replied.

And the New York case only addressed Tucker Carlson's show, not Fox News in general. And the court 's description of Fox News' argument that specific statements made by Carlson about Susan MacDougal were not defamatory claim wasn't that Fox News is was "entertainment" (a word that does not appear anywhere in the court's opinion). Rather, Fox News' defense, which the court accepted, was that with respect to the specific statements alleged to be defamatory, Carlson "cannot be understood to have been stating facts, but instead that he was delivering an opinion using hyperbole for effect."

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/McDougal-Opinion.pdf

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