Courtroom Extra: In Sarah Palin 2d NYT Defamation Trial Editor Cohn Had no Issue with Editorial then Corrected - now definition?
by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 16 – The Friday before the second round of Sarah Palin versus New York Times, a final pre-trial conference was held by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff. Inner City Press, which covered the first trial, live tweeted it, thread.
On April 15, Inner City Press live tweeted each side's opening argument, and then the first two witnesses: Elizabeth Williamson who drafted the editorial - focusing her research on rhetoric and not causation of the 2011 shooting, she said - and Phoebe Lett who fact-checked it, thread.
On April 16, onto the stand went NYT's Cohn, Lepping then Bennet, ending in jokes with Judge Rakoff about Bennet sharing the same barber as Palin's lawyer Vogt. Thread.
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