Can Dem Party sue Fox for libel?

[Hawkowl]

Could the Democratic Party sue Fox News for libel for identifying scandal plagued republican senators and congressmen as democrats? It is obvious that this is a deliberate tactic to damage the Democratic Party's reputation. Although, Fox News won a court case recently by stating that the first amendment guarantees their right to lie and distort the news, it doesn't give them the right to libel and slander.

I think this would be a good tactic to at destroy the last vestige of credibility of Fake News corp.
Opinions?

[NoodleBoy]

1. the DNC would have to prove in court that Fox News' "unintentional" relabellings have cost them

money, I think, and any potential donor to the Democratic Party probably wouldn't be watching Fox News or be confused by their accidents.

Obligatory I-am-not-a-lawyer sentence.

[wake.up.america]

4. I watched Brit H on Fox News via the internet. First time to watch a newscast on Fox.

I was truly appalled by what I saw. This is nothing but an extension of the White House!!

Absolute blatant slant on the news.

You guys talk about it all the time, but to see it myself for the first time is a shocker.

[hughee99]

5. Wouldn't they also have to prove that the relabellings were

intentional? I though in order to prove libel, you had to prove intentional malice.

[TechBear_Seattle]

8. A better solution, methinks

Go after them as violating FEC regulations for in-kind contributions made to the GOP. They consistently support Republican candidates and policies while consistently trashing Democratic candidates and policies. :evilgrin:

[KurtNYC]

2. Chavez sued CNN earlier this year

lemme just check what happened with that...

edit to add: Not sure it went forward although CNN half apologized:

Tony Maddox, a vice president of CNN International, said that the network had already given a detailed apology for the mistake in using footage from Mexico and "denies categorically being engaged in a campaign to discredit or attack Venezuela".

As for the image of Mr Chávez next to bin Laden, Mr Maddox said that “unrelated news stories can be juxtaposed in a given segment of television news in the same way that a newspaper page or a website can have news items with no relation to each other placed side by side".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1854593.ece

And Michael Moore rode CNN until they retracted and backed down.

[Enrique]

3. Fox News is technically considered satire

[ellacott]

7. Good answer lol n/t

[SoxFan]

6. They can try...

But the DNC wouldn't win. A defamation suit (libel or slander) involving a public figure is a different creature than a suit involving John Q. Public. When a public figure is asserting a claim of defamation, he or she must prove actual malice on the part of the defendant. It's a very tough standard to prove by a preponderance of the evidence.