Sarah Palin Takes on New York Times in a Trial Targeting Press Protections
- Former Alaska governor is suing Times over 2017 editorial
- Newspaper claims it made a mistake then quickly corrected it
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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.