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The owner of right-leaning cable news channel One America News Network (OANN) has filed a defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow and others claiming that the 46-year-old liberal commentator “maliciously and recklessly” smeared the network as a Russian state propaganda outlet.

In a press release obtained by Law&Crime, attorneys for OANN’s owner Herrring Networks, Inc. said they filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Maddow, Comcast Corporation, NBC Universal and MSNBC in a California federal court.

The lawsuit tracks a series of longstanding grievances between OANN and Comcast.

According to the press release, the complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry the right-wing network because OANN “counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC.” One week after that, OANN’s founder Charles Herring sent an open email to Comcast deriding their alleged “anti-competitive censorship.”

Maddow apparently responded in turn, defending her own network’s owners by blasting OANN and telling her own audience the right-wing network “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.” As you can see, the plaintiff claimed that counsel for NBC Universal said in a letter that by “literally” Maddow meant “not being literally true.” This was apparently part of the response to an OANN retraction demand.

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Good. I doubt anything will come of it but hopefully this gets OANN some more customer attention and a bigger piece of the news pie.

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Originally posted by gw3971:
Good. I doubt anything will come of it but hopefully this gets OANN some more customer attention and a bigger piece of the news pie.

Yes. I currently reside in an area of the country that is populated by a majority of non-thinking folks who just accept everything the MSM (Main Stream Media), aka, the Democrat Propaganda arm as gospel truth. But, because I have lived in several other parts of the country, I know there are a lot of Americans who are still Americans - meaning, they question things - especially those who would govern over us.

More exposure to OANN is only a good thing.

$10 million? I'd like to know how they came up with that figure. That's a rounding error to that group of companies.

They will likely not get a dime, but it is good publicity!

Yup. It's not about getting a dime, but really about getting the much needed publicity. I bet most Americans don't know OANN even exists.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Yup. It's not about getting a dime, but really about getting the much needed publicity. I bet most Americans don't know OANN even exists.

Yup. I did not know much about OANN, and now I do. It worked!

I would normally think this is meaningless, but after the win against Oberlin College, I’m a little optimistic.