A very important case was heard this week in Washington, D.C. at the appeals court level involving Shirley Sherrod and her infamous tape (here’s the portion of her speech the media didn’t show you)that got her fired from the USDA. The case involves the Freedom of Speech right of bloggers to give an opinion.
Good for him for standing up for his rights. This case should be a no brainer for any judge given the depth NBC went to to make Zimmerman look like a racist.
Via CNN
George Zimmerman, charged in the shooting death of a 17-year-old Florida boy, sued NBC Universal on Thursday for using “the oldest form of yellow journalism” by editing an audio tape of his 911 call to make him sound racist, the lawsuit said.
Zimmerman is seeking “damages in excess of the jurisdictional limit” in Seminole County Circuit Court in Florida, where the lawsuit is filed.
Zimmerman, who is Hispanic and is charged with second-degree murder, is accused of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, who was African-American. The February incident has provoked national controversy.
Zimmerman says he shot Martin in self-defense. Attorneys for Martin’s family say the teen was shot and killed “in cold blood.”
“NBC saw the death of Trayvon Martin not as a tragedy but as an opportunity to increase ratings, and so set about to create the myth that George Zimmerman was a racist and predatory villain,” the lawsuit said.
“Because of NBC’s deceptive and exploitative manipulations, the public wrongly believes that Zimmerman ‘us(ed) a racial epithet’ while describing Martin during the call to the dispatcher on that fateful night,” the suit said.
A spokesman for NBC Universal couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.
The defamation lawsuit accuses the network of sensationalizing and manipulating a potential “racial powder keg that would result in months, if not years, of topics for their failing news program, particularly the plummeting ratings for their ailing Today Show.”
Read more at this link.
This is one reason I gave up using Gmail some time ago.
Via RT
Google isn’t exactly a stranger to allegations that they invade the privacy of their customers, but now the search engine is being asked to explain itself in court over accusations that they snoop through messages sent through its Gmail service.
Representatives from Google are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit waged at the company’s Gmail platform because the plaintiffs in the case cannot explicitly prove that their correspondence is being unlawfully monitored by the email service.
Brad Scott and Todd Harrington are the lead plaintiffs in a case that attempts to call-out the Silicon Valley search engine company as being in violation of California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) because they believe Gmail conducts clandestine scans of emails for words and content, intentionally intercepting private communiqué as a result without obtaining the user’s permission. Google, on the other hand, maintains that only computers complete all the legwork and that no humans actually have their eyes on any emails, also insisting that neither Mr. Scott nor Mr. Harrington can back up their claims that any action from Gmail has led to injury.
Google condemned the case this week, Courthouse News reports, arguing by way of a 25-page motion that Gmail scans data sent over its servers using its “fully automated processes involve no human review of any kind” that they insist exists to screen out viruses and spam “for the protection of its users.” Now they are asking US District Judge Lucy Koh to dismiss the complaint with prejudice.
Read more at this link.
Very funny stuff from Team Coco. For background on the lawsuit see this post at Forbes.
(H/T Clayton)
The broadcast media’s blackout on news of the Catholic Church’s lawsuit against the Obama administration continues apace, while the news media covers much more important events like who won American Idol.
So it’s no wonder that MRCTV’s Dan Joseph found only one person yesterday who knew about the lawsuit. Most of those interviewed knew more about the American Idol winner than the Catholic Church lawsuit thanks to the media blackout.
Va. AG Ken Cuccinelli discusses the state’s court battle over Obamacare with Terry Jeffrey at CNS News.
For more CNS News video, visit this link.
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