Saturday, March 14, 2015

Cable news reverses baffling hate-speech analysis by its own ‘legal expert’

REPORT: Cable news reverses baffling hate-speech analysis by its own ‘legal expert’:
"HLN, the sibling cable network to CNN, has an in-house “legal expert” named Joey Jackson who specializes in criminal law.
It asked him to weigh in on whether the University of Oklahoma’s expulsion of the alleged leaders of a racist chant on a bus was unconstitutional.
According to former College Fix editor Robby Soave at Reason, Jackson was initially quoted as saying: “Hate speech is not protected by the Constitution as it has no social value.” 
That analysis puts him at odds with mainstream constitutional law authorities.
At some later point, HLN actually reversed his quote, Soave says in an update to his post. Jackson’s quote now reads: “Hate speech is protected by the Constitution despite its limited social value.”
There’s no editor’s note in the HLN story saying the post has been revised, much less how it was revised, or whether Jackson was initially misquoted or asked that his quote be revised.
This is standard practice in Web journalism."

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