Caribou Barbie Takes on New York Times in a Trial Targeting Press Protections
(Bloomberg) -- Sarah Palin’s lawyer told the jury in her defamation case against the New York Times that the newspaper’s former opinion page editor “didn’t care” about the facts when he incorrectly linked her political rhetoric to a deadly shooting in a 2017 piece.
“He had his narrative and he stuck with it,” the lawyer, Shane Vogt, said of the editor, James Bennet, in his opening statement in the trial on Thursday.
Palin, 57, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, is suing the Times and Bennet for suggesting she helped incite a 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in which six people were killed and 14 wounded, including then-U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
David Axelrod, a lawyer for the Times, pointed out in his opening statement that the newspaper issued a correction about 12 hours after the piece was first published.
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