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A law firm representing 12 family members sent a letter to NBC News chairman Andy Lack and other network executives on Thursday condemning the interview with Jones, who has questioned whether the 2012 shooting at the Connecticut elementary school really happened.
"Surely, we can agree that these families have suffered enough already, and that they will continue to suffer enough to last several lifetimes. Which is why we cannot fathom -- from a moral, ethical or legal standpoint -- NBC's decision to amplify the voice of a man who has made a living debasing that suffering and smearing our clients' names," said the lawyers, from the firm Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder. "Over the last few years, Alex Jones has weaponized his radio show to publish false and defamatory statements about our clients: chief among them that they are actors perpetrating a massive fraud on the American public by faking the deaths of their loved ones."
The lawyers said that airing Kelly's interview with Jones "implicitly endorses the notion that Mr. Jones' lies are actually 'claims' that are worthy of serious debate; and in doing so it exponentially enhances the suffering and distress of our clients."
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/16/media/sandy-hook-letter-nbc-megyn-kelly-alex-jones/index.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)for a man who admits to sexually assaulting women, openly mocks the disabled, and has been found guilty numerous times of lying and cheating working people.
We were done when that happened, what we are seeing now are the dying days.
As to this topic, the fact that NBC even considered letting this PUNK on national TV, well that just confirms for me how completely done we are as to a society that deserves ANY respect.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Are they serious - they is about money - profit - nothing else.
GEM$NBComcast doesn't give a flying fugg - well maybe the legal one.
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)The CNN article says as much. Its stated intent is to shame NBC into pulling the interview, and it will fail at that. The families already know this. But, they would like to keep their legal options open should they decide to file suit later on. And to make their anguish very, very public.
A lawsuit is also unlikely, as not a single Sandy Hook family member wants to go through that kind of trauma. What they want is for Alex Jones to STFU and not be on national television, but NBC doesn't seem to care about what the families want. Shame, decency, and journalistic integrity are sadly lacking at NBC.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)lapislzi
(5,762 posts)No one's trying to make it one. It's a question of journalistic ethics, discretion, sensitivity, and the foresight to understand the consequences of your actions.
Presenting Alex Jones as if he has a "side" or a legitimate position about the events of Sandy Hook is a false equivalence of monstrous proportions, and should be called out for what it is. There are no sides here. There are events that happened. If a person chooses not to accept the facts as they are, that person is a cruel, and possibly dangerous, idiot.
This broadcast will cause harm to the families. It has already caused harm. The suffering parent is sitting at the cubicle across from my office. Trust me, his anguish is real, and there's no "side" to that, no way to spin it. Alex Jones getting a national microphone and attracting more kooks is going to make his anguish worse.
The fact that THAT is not being proclaimed by NBC, is a travesty. Anyone who claims otherwise should be ashamed.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,488 posts)Give feedback to NBC at http://www.nbc.com/contact-us
Here's what I told them:
I guess you can take the "reporter" out of Faux news but you can't take the Faux news out of the "reporter." By giving air time to Wingnut Fever Dreams fantasizer Alex Jones, NBC seems to want to be Faux Lite.