Matt Davies Sued For $1 Million

Alan Gardner caught this, which I appreciate: the cartoonist Matt Davies is among nine journalists being sued by an angered congressional credit for defaming his character. A particularly brutal -- although still to my eye obviously protected -- sample of Davies' treatment of the liberal media-hating candidate can be found through the link. A rational person's eyeball tests suggests these suits aren't of any merit, and I assume a reasonable court would agree -- although we live in dangerous times regarding politically charged expression and all it takes is one lousy outcome to have a chilling effect on cartoonists and the papers that hire/protect them. Certainly countries outside of the U.S. have felt the sting that aggressive lawsuits from those covered in stories, prose editorials and in editorial cartoons can bring to various time-honored journalistic enterprises.
 
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