Some media companies maybe settling….
MSNBC didn’t, and beat back another effort to limit Press reporting…
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif) against MSNBC personality Rachel Maddow nearly five years ago.
U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel ruled last week that Nunes failed to prove Maddow and her team at the network acted with actual malice during a discussion about a package Nunes received addressed to him from Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian legislator with ties to Russian officials and intelligence services, while he was the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
“The Court concludes that no reasonable jury could find that NBCU made the statement with constitutionally-defined actual malice,” Castel wrote.
MSNBC is owned by NBC Universal as part of the Comcast corporate umbrella.
Nunes, a longtime ally of President Trump, sued Maddow in 2021 alleging she and the network “harbor an institutional hostility, hatred, extreme bias, spite and ill-will” toward the Republican….