Paris City Council authorizes mayor to sue Fox News

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/12/1364088/-Paris-City-Council-authorizes-mayor-to-sue-Fox-News?detail=facebook

Thu Feb 12, 2015 at 12:48 PM PST
Paris City Council authorizes mayor to sue Fox News
by Jen Hayden


The city of Paris is one step closer to suing Fox News:

Paris City Council authorized Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Wednesday to sue U.S. broadcaster Fox News for reporting there are "no-go zones" in the French capital where non-Muslims and police fear to venture.

City officials voted to file a lawsuit at a French court for defamation regarding comments on Fox News and a map it broadcast with eight such so-called off-limits areas circled in red. The report came when Paris was on high alert after attacks by Islamic radicals last month.

Fox News has vowed to fight it:

"The decision by the City of Paris to bring legal proceedings against a United States news organization is antithetical to free speech," according to a statement provided by Fox News from lawyer Dori Ann Hanswirth of the Hogan Lovells law firm. "Fox News will invoke every protection afforded it under all applicable laws."

Break out the wine and cheese, this just got interesting.

[raging moderate]

1. Que les bons temps roulent!

Merci beaucoup, Paris!

[marym625]

2. wow!

This is truly going to be good.

I am so happy Paris is doing this.

Since when has outright lies, not done in satirical fashion, that incites violence, protected speech? It would be ddifferent if fox news was a comedy show. Well, supposed to be a comedy

[libdem4life]

3. Couldn't happen to more deserving media gangsters.

[Half-Century Man]

4. I think Fox just defeated itself without help from France.

Did not fox win a court case in the USA allowing them to distort facts because they were an "entertainment" group rather than a "news" group?
If in fact they are an American entertainment group, than the legal protections given to news organizations do not apply to Fox.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. If they are an "entertainment" group,

then they should either change their name to Fox Entertainment or Fox "News".

[Half-Century Man]

6. I'm gonna try to find the court case to verify what I think.

I got several things going on a once here.,

[rurallib]

9. it was down in Florida about 15 years ago and involved a milk producer

IIRC

[jalan48]

7. Vive la France!

[Takket]

8. according to Fox News, France always surrenders

Give 'em hell Paris!!!