CNN Settles Defamation Lawsuit with Covington Student Nicholas Sandmann

The absolute worst part of "journalism" today, is how these organizations have a slush fund and insurance for cases where they're caught lying and destroying lives - never mind actually doing the job of verifying a story, they've just de-risked not verifying it. It is all factored into the risk-model of their operations.

For anyone following this, Elizabeth Warren got off without consequence for amplifying these smears because: "claims against them (congress men/women) are barred by sovereign immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act” [1]

So - in the US, as long as you're a serving member of congress, you can unload on a private citizen with zero consequence.

[1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-dismisses-covington-ken...