Oh, you hate to see it…JUST KIDDING.
On Friday, a jury of six in Florida’s 14th Circuit Court in Bay County has found CNN liable for the defamation of Navy veteran Zachary Young and that he was entitled economic and emotional damages, a ruling that proved CNN was not worthy of their moniker “the most trusted name in news.” They also found that CNN’s reporters had demonstrated expressed malice, actual malice, and outrageous behavior, which opened the door for a massive punitive damages judgement.
A jury took eight hours – and one calculator – to decide that CNN had defamed Navy veteran Zachary Young, who had been involved in helping people get the hell out of Afghanistan, as ‘profiting’ from his assistance by ‘preying’ on their desperation.’
…Young alleged that CNN smeared him by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee…
