Federal Judge Says Media Is Anti-GOP ‘Threat to Democracy’ (1)

A conservative judge on the influential federal appeals court in Washington used his dissent in a defamation case to lambaste most U.S. media outlets for trumpeting “shocking” anti-Republican views and call for libel laws to be revised to make it easier to sue the press.

The New York Times and The Washington Post are “virtually Democratic Party broadsheets,” while the news section of the Wall Street Journal “leans in the same direction,” U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman said. He said the major television outlets and Silicon Valley giants were similarly biased.

President George W. Bush presents a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Laurence Silberman at the White House in 2008.

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“One-party control of the press and media is ...